Here are a few new & noteworthy items for today, Thursday 11 April:
Plans for a potential high speed rail network from Melbourne to Brisbane, through Canberra and Sydney are published in Australia (Plane Talking)
Qantas has opened a very impressive looking new lounge for passengers in Singapore (Australian Business Traveller)
International Airlines Group CEO Willie Walsh is resigned to Heathrow never getting a 3rd runway (Independent)
Willie Walsh also in favour of greater cross-border industry consolidation (Bloomberg)
US airline JetBlue is pursuing greater links with international carriers (Bloomberg)
Air France defers Airbus A380 deliveries (Bloomberg)
Virgin America may file an anti-competitive complaint over United frequency increases on transcontinental flights (Flightglobal)
Memo to Sir Richard Branson: It’s not the 1990s anymore! (Cover your eyes!)(Telegraph)