Posted in Living in Perth, tagged Andrea Dearden. 2009, best place, Blue skies, born, bred, dreads, everyone, Kangaroos, mulitcutural land, perth, plane, sand, sunsets, Truly, WA on November 29, 2009| Leave a Comment »
WA born and bred 
Getting on a plane everyone dreads
With kangaroos and sunsets
Blue skies and sand
Why would anyone want to leave
This mulitcutural land !
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Posted in Local News, tagged 8.30am (WST), about 20km, board the plane, board., Broome, crash, emergency landing, five, injuries, minor, minor injuries, north, plane, plane crash, Police, the plane, Thursday, WA, walk away, walked away, western australia, Western Australia's northwest, wreck on July 30, 2009| Leave a Comment »
FIVE people have walked away from a light plane crash with minor injuries in Western Australia’s northwest, police say.
Sergeant Greg Lambert said the plane made an emergency landing about 8.30am (WST) on Thursday, about 20km north of Broome.
“It parked where it shouldn’t have been parking,” Sgt Lambert said. Five people on board the plane walked away with minor injuries but the plane was a wreck, Sgt Lambert said.
Source : www.news.com.au
Posted in Local News, tagged 2.20pm, A330-300 aircraft, again.'', airbus, aircraft, Airline, airport, arrival, booked, Changi Airport, checks, delayed, depart, departure, hit, hit by lightning, in Perth, incident, inspected, inspected by engineers, inspections, jet, landed, landing, on QF71, operating., passengers, perth, plane, plane landed safely in Perth, presented, Qantas, Qantas Airbus, Qantas jet, QF72 Singapore to Perth flight, refreshment vouchers, return QF71 flight, safely, safety issue, scheduled arrival time of 2.20pm, Singapore, struck by lightning, time, two-and-a-half hours., undertaken, WA on July 22, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Qantas Airbus operating the QF72 Singapore to Perth flight was struck by lightning soon after departure from Changi Airport, the airline confirmed.
A spokesman for the airline said the incident had not presented any safety issue to the aircraft or passengers. 
The plane landed safely in Perth at its scheduled arrival time of 2.20pm, where it will now be inspected.
“The A330-300 aircraft will be inspected by engineers after landing,” the spokesman said.
“It is too soon to say if any maintenance will be required.”
To allow the necessary checks to be undertaken, the return QF71 flight to Singapore will be delayed by about two-and-a-half hours.
It will now depart Perth at 6pm.
Qantas said passengers booked on QF71 would be provided with refreshment vouchers.
“We will be keeping them informed of developments in the lead up to the departure,” the spokesman said.
Source : www.watoday.com.au
Posted in ALL news, tagged $315 per trip, access, Airline, airline's cargo plane, Airways., Alysa Binder, animal-friendly, animals, bathroom breaks, Betsy Saul, booked out, cages, cargo hold, caring way., carriers, cats, charges, Chicago, co-founder, company, comparable, Dan Wiesel, decided, demand, Denver, dogs, dogs and cats, excited, expected, experience, fliers, flights, freezing, furniture, future, husband-and-wife, impact Pet Airways, installed, Jack Russell terrier, launch., Los Angeles, love, love their pets, major airlines., massive, new, New York, offering, operating., passengers, people, Pet, Pet Airways, Pet Airways charges, Pet Lounge, pet travel, pet-friendliness, pet-friendly airlines., Petfinder.com, pets, plane, pre-boarding, Precious pets, ranks, rapidly, regional airports, response, scared, seats, service, sniff, special, staggering, start up, start-up company, surprise, team, transport, travel, various airlines, walks, Washington on July 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »
PEOPLE love their pets, sometimes more than they love other people.So it is not a surprise that a start-up company, Pet Airways, has had a massive response since offering to transport dogs and cats in a much more caring way.
Precious pets won’t be left to fend for themselves in cages in a freezing cargo hold – an experience that so scared a Jack Russell terrier owned by husband-and-wife team Alysa Binder and Dan Wiesel that they decided to launch Pet Airways.
All of the passengers using the new airline’s cargo plane get to travel in the front of the plane in special carriers installed instead of seats.
They are escorted to the plane by pet-loving attendants who check on their precious cargo every 15 minutes.
The pets are given pre-boarding walks and bathroom breaks and also have access to a “Pet Lounge” where future fliers can wait and sniff the furniture before flights.
The demand for the service has been staggering, with flights rapidly booked out for the first two months.
Operating between regional airports in New York, Washington, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles, Pet Airways charges about $315 per trip, which is comparable with charges on less pet-friendly airlines.
The company is already looking to add more flights and cities soon, and hopes to fly to 25 destinations within three years.
Betsy Saul, co-founder of Petfinder.com which ranks the pet-friendliness of various airlines, said she was excited about the expected impact Pet Airways would have on pet travel across major airlines.
”The entire industry will stretch because of Pet Airways,” Betsy told the Associated Press.
Source : www.news.com.au
Posted in Local News, tagged Airline, airport, Australia, aviation, aviation industry body., baggage, bags, barcode, board., contract, existing, extension, fails, five-year extension, frustrated, future, granted., implemented in Perth, in Perth, Industry, international, link passengers, loaded, Local News, luggage, new, new technology, overcome, passenger, peak, perth, Perth International Airport, plane, problems, proponents, reduce, renewal of the contract, Representatives, requirment, screening, system., technology, testing, times, tracking system, Unisys, WA, waiting, way on June 24, 2009| Leave a Comment »
A new way of luggage screening could reduce waiting for frustrated passengers at Perth International Airport, its proponents say. 
The company contracted to screen international passenger baggage says it is testing a system which helps overcome problems caused when luggage is loaded on to a plane but the passenger fails to board.
Unisys, which was recently granted a five-year extension to its contract, says the new technology will allow its existing barcode tracking system to link passengers to bags.
Currently at Perth Airport, the barcode is linked only to the bag, meaning substantial delays can often result as staff try to find and remove baggage should a passenger fail to board.
A Unisys spokeswoman said the new system would be implemented in Perth “in the near future” once testing had finished.
The new technology was part of the requirment of the renewal of the contract with the Board of Airline Representatives of Australia, the peak aviation industry body.
Source : www.watoday.com.au
Posted in Local News, tagged " said Carr. "Investigations, $90000, 000, abc news, across Perth., agencies, airport, alerted, ALL news, allegedly, altered, appear, apprehended, Australia, Australian, charged for allegedly, constable, containing, continuing, counterfeit cards, credit card, credit cards, custody, Debit cards, Detective, detectives, discovered., documentary, eastern states., electrical goods, estimated, evidence, fake credit cards, false, false identification., First class, found by police, fraud, fraud offences, fraud squad, goods, identification, involved, items, jewellery, laptop computers, large quantity, major, Malaysian tourists, month., news, perth, Perth Airport, Perth Magistrate's Court, plane, Police, Police Fraud Squad, possession, probe, purchasing, reported, Rulan Carr, scam, seized, shop owners, shopping centre, squad, stores, suitcase, suspects, suspicion, tourists, traced, travelled, trio, various, worth on June 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
THREE Malaysian tourists have been charged for allegedly purchasing more than $90,000 (about RM255,000) worth of jewellery and electrical goods with fake credit cards across Perth.
The two women, aged 21 and 26, and a 31-year-old man, had apparently travelled from the eastern states of Australia to Perth earlier this month and made the 
purchases at various shopping centre stores using altered credit cards and false identification.
Australian news agencies reported that police major fraud squad detectives apprehended the trio following a probe into the use of the counterfeit cards after shop owners alerted them. They are due to appear in the Perth Magistrate’s Court today.
Detective first class constable Rulan Carr from the Police Fraud Squad told ABC News that the suspects were traced to the Perth Airport where they were about to board a plane on Wednesday.
The 21-year-old woman was first to be arrested and was in possession of a suitcase allegedly containing a large quantity of jewellery and laptop computers, estimated worth more than $90,000.
The two others were found by police, also at the airport, and taken into custody on suspicion of being involved in the scam.
Debit cards and other documentary evidence were also discovered.
“The items were seized and the persons were charged with various fraud offences,” said Carr. “Investigations are still continuing into those items.”
Further charges are expected to be laid against the three.
Source : http://www.mmail.com.my/content/3-malaysians-nabbed-perth-a90000-fake-credit-card-purchases
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