This week's episode comes out a little late as Steve's still in the USA and Grant was up in Sydney for the PCDU / SimpliFlying TweetUp that happened along side the Asia / Pacific Aviation Outlook Summit 2009. A great time was had by all who attended the event but now it's back to work as there's news to read, interviews to arrange and a podcast to produce.

This week's episode includes the following topics:

• Jetstar launches world first SMS based boarding pass
• Jetstar's SMS boarding passes (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
• Comparing Geoff Dixon with Alan Joyce at QANTAS
• Qantas boss a cautious optimist (Matt O'Sullivan @ The Age)
• Global aviation faces slow return to profits: Dixon (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
• Joyce rules out Qantas merger (Matt O'Sullivan @ The Age)
• Alan Joyce kills off IPO plans amid Pacific rationalisation forecast (Ross Kelly @ The Australian)
• QANTAS fights back
• Qantas vows to slug out fare ware (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
• Qantas relaunches branded website (The Age)
• Qantas business blitz to hit Virgin (Steve Creedy @The Australian)
• Swine Flu impacts air travel and Cathay Pacific struggles
• Asia-Pacific travel recovery falls foul of flu (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
• Times are turbulent for Cathay as it faces storm (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
• Virgin fights back, raises money and has a health scare
• V Australia Launches New One Way Fares to USA
• Virgin share offer takes flight (Matt O'Sullivan @ WA Today)
• Food poisoning scare on Virgin flights (ABC News)
• Tiger Improves its Act
• Complaints drop as Tiger Airways listens to customers (John Wright @ The Courier Mail)
• Remains of last missing RAAF airmen returned from Vietnam
• Missing Vietnam airmen's remains found (ABC News)
• Merpati Twin Otter crashes
• Plane wreckage found in Papua (ABC News)
• Bangkok Airways ATR72 crashes at Koh Samui
• Pilot killed as plane skids off runway (ABC News)
• RNZAF Upgrades Tech Training Fleet
• NZAF to Upgrade Aircraft for Training (Aviation Today)
• Hand Propping Accident
• Cessna takes off without pilot (ABC News)
• Steve Visscher presents an update from the USA including flying an old tail dragger, seeing more C130s than the RAAF could ever own and starting the long flights back home

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