More Jakarta excuses...
 

'Runway Maintenance'. :ugh:

Singapore Airlines postpones Sydney-Jakarta-Singpore service | Australian Aviation

As I mentioned a number of posts back. Look closer to home. Octane is on the money. The Indos have simply honoured the original agreement, WITHOUT extensions. Make of that what you will...........

So true, but it highlights the gross incompetence of that entire group... the wunderkind who the media couldn't get enough of some years ago has been there 6-7 years now and you can track it by the losses and the reduction of the shares down to mere cents of value. There are supposedly a number of leading airlines owning this complete excuse for an airline group and they sit back and do nothing (other than Air NZ who bailed, no coincidence that they are seen as one of the world's best) yet the others sit there and pump in billions while superman (who's not so super in the media anymore0 explains one disastrous result after the other on 'difficult' or 'depressed' trading conditions). When and what does this bloke have to do to get sacked??? They are in serious need of someone who actually knows what they are doing to come in and they should start by purging all the people who jockey for position and know nothing out the door and actually employing people who know how to run an airline business, including how to mount international operations. JQ did this in 2006 in about 5 months on it's own with no assistance from QF other than the leased A330s and it opened up 5-6 international ports within weeks of each other. VA can't even organise a TT operation to DPS without it being a total debacle. The mind boggles and the head shakes...

It's not hard to operate there. I spent quite a while in DPS and CGK at various times. QF don't go through this because they know what the hell they're doing. They don't have amateurs running around barely a day out of University or even High School clutching at straws to try and work out how to do these things. QF on the other hand have people with years of experience and a lot of organisational memory and expertise at how to do this. If this doesn't see the end of the current senior management in VA goodness knows what will... 6 years now with no profit approximately, share price down to mere cents. What exactly is the purpose of this organisation??? It certainly doesn't appear to be anything to do with providing a return on investors funds or meeting the needs of the market.

Bwaahahahahaha! You guys are hilarious today. Are you professional comedians or just on really good gear?

Exactly! People these days don't value experience, including the new brand of management. It is just seen as an extra cost to keep higher paid, experienced people on the payroll. It is also seen as an embarrassment to have the experienced nobodies telling the inexperienced somebodies that their great idea is actually crap.

]JQ aren't the only carrier to succeed in short tine and get things right. So too did Australian Airlines (AO) in 2002 who had a small team of seconded people from Qantas who I believe knew what they were doing. From memory, AO served three points in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Bali and Singapore from the get-go without any (reported) hassles.

As an aside. it's easy to see/understand why a certain wonder-kid didn't get the top gig at Qantas!

I have been told there is an announcement of some description to be made on Friday 17 Feb. I hope it is not one of those 5pm announcements. Put it in your diary.

Let's hope it's the long awaited "changing of the guard".
JT to replace JB? He couldn't be any worse!

To be objective, I doubt the share price is any measure at all of Virgin's actual value. There are so few shares held by the public that everytime Mrs Smith down the road sells the 500 shares her husband left her in his estate, because she just got f%*@ed over by Tiger, the shareprice probably drops 10% as they scramble to find "the greater fool" to buy them.

17 Feb is when the company does it's formal half yearly results. So yeah, there'll be announcements.:rolleyes:

There is an excellent article in the aviation section of today's "The Australian" about Tiger and VA's mismanagement of the DPS debacle. "A Tigerair spokeswoman declined to say why the airline would not grant an interview with The Australian to discuss its handling of the crisis."

People need to sacked over the handling of this, starting with Rob Sharp, Borghetti shouldn't be far behind. Who cares if it was Tiger's fault or not, the passengers don't, just get them there!

Virgin should have reacted almost instantly operating the same flights on their own metal until Tiger could get itself sorted.

Why the hell didn't that happen? In these sort of situations this is what all well run airlines do, readjust the network temporarily to get aircraft available to cover your arse.

What's worse is they operated rescue flights from Bali to Brisbane, then pushed pax onto connecting flights around the country. Tiger doesn't even fly direct Bali to Brisbane, couldn't even get them back home direct.