Interesting no one here all day has mentioned Qatar's interest in acquiring a 25% stake in Virgin Australia.

For those not up to speed here's this mornings article in the FT.

Qatar Airways agrees to buy 25% stake in Virgin Australia
Australia’s second-largest carrier would return to long-haul ...

If we're looking for a low cost hub and spoke airline in Singapore, I'd probably aim for Scoot. A lot more destinations and aircraft right now. Getting Air Asia (from KL) back would be another option.

it would? :?


Perhaps "Adelaide to a North American hub"?

But Adelaide has a niche film industry and video game industry, both of which could be relevant to Los Angeles and nearby California. There is probably more travel done to/from Adelaide for the Defence sector, but I'm not sure if ...

People complaining about Perth getting huge infrastructure upgrades are failing to understand that the 787 Dreamliners can fly non-stop from Perth to London, Rome & a number of other potential European capitals, all of which are too far from Adelaide to reach safely. With these upgrades, a trip to ...

Note that Rex will be using Embraer E190's on Perth - Adelaide. They could probably fill 737's if they wanted to, but remember Rex tried running 737-Maxes on Mildura - Sunshine Coast, and see how that turned out for them.


Might not be enough affordable 737 available right now either, Virgin is ...

Might be a capacity issue for the actual aeroplanes in relation to scheduling that's available?
Is United able to fly into Adelaide from an Australian federal government (or whatever department/agency within government) at the moment? ie the whole Qatar debacle.


Not sure with United, but ...

Seems to be adding 3 indoor courts, a bunch of outdoor ones on what used to be used as a car park and a new gym/office space out the back. I can't see the 36ers moving games back there (except preseason matches or the odd double booking at the Entertainment Centre) when there's even less parking ...

Seems to be adding 3 indoor courts, a bunch of outdoor ones on what used to be used as a car park and a new gym/office space out the back. I can't see the 36ers moving games back there (except preseason matches or the odd double booking at the Entertainment Centre) when there's even less parking and ...

I thought the 3000 series were already diesel-electric?


Believe so, seems they're adding regenerative braking and some batteries rather than relying solely on the diesel engine to power the electric motor. Makes sense considering the stop/start nature of the Outer Harbor/Grange lines and the ...

Never said anything about grand slams, or capacity.
I'm talking about the overall upgrade. It's mediocre, at best.

There was a proposal, or vision perhaps, for a new stadium built in it's place. Instead our government of the time wanted to build a white elephant across the river so gave us a ...

New concept design for Majors Road after community consultation.

https://dit.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0013/1124104/Majors-Road-Concept-Design-With-Road-Corridor-01.jpg

Early works to commence late 2022, completion expected by the end of 2025.

https://dit.sa.gov.au/infrastructure/road ...

Interesting hypothesis, but maybe the Liberals need to think of better proposals in future. I don't think there would have been any serious detraction to a full upgrade of Hindmarsh, especially as the cost would be nowhere near that of their Riverbank Arena plan.


I don't see the use case ...

Qatar is currently flying a second daily flight which is detouring to and from Adelaide after arriving in Melbourne, however it doesn't appear to be taking passengers from Adelaide.

I believe this is a temporary compliance arrangement for Qatar until it goes back to the planned Doha-Melbourne ...

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Tue Jul 19, 2022 11:39 am

Just out of interest, which international flights are there from Adelaide these days ?

Is it only Doha and Singapore?

Also Bali, Kuala Lumpur, Fiji and Auckland.

Well Marshall did propose a $600 million "basketball stadium", but the ppl voted. Can't see anything better getting floated in the next 3 and a bit years :|


Yeh well, there was also the vision for this stadium to be completely redeveloped, but you know, Mr Marshall didn't like that idea, he ...