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Hungry Beast’s take on JetConnect

Here's a story produced by Hungry Beast that they couldn't fit in the show, about Kiwi airliner, JetConnect.

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Here’s a story produced by Hungry Beast that they couldn’t fit in the show, about Kiwi airliner, JetConnect.

Or is that JitConnikt?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68f_JdPmvlM[/youtube]

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  1. @Rocksta – you’re mostly right. Qantas pulled the pin on their agreement with Malaysian Airlines to have them conduct maintenance on their service aircraft in Malaysia. This was after a 737 serviced by them came back with a string of faults.

    I still won’t fly with them any more.

  2. Hey Secret Squirrel , do some research before you blog . Qantas does not and nor has it ever performed maintenance in Malaysia . Places they have include
    Singapore , Auckland , Hong Kong , Los Angeles , Manila , & Frankfurt .
    But your right about one thing , The quality of work they provide is crap.
    ” Good labour is not cheap and cheap labour is not good “

  3. The team at Hungry Beast appreciates viewers’ interest in the Jet Connect story.

    With regards to the speculation as to why to story didn’t end up being broadcast on last week’s show, here’s why:

    Regular viewers of Hungry Beast will be aware that this year, the show has been based around a different theme each week. Every week our team produces more stories than fit in each episode. On a Tuesday afternoon we make a final decision as to which stories will make the show. It is usually a very hard decision because there is not enough time available for all the stories and sometimes some really good stories won’t make it. Of those we don’t have enough time for – some are held over for a future program if they will fit within the theme of a future program, some are posted to the website, and some end up on the cutting room floor.

    In relation to the Jet Connect story, when deciding on the final rundown of last week’s show, we didn’t have enough time for all stories produced, and there were other stories that were more strongly related to the episode theme of ‘Speed’. This was a standard editorial decision similar to decisions we make every week. This was the only reason why the Jet Connect story wasn’t included in the broadcast program. There were no other reasons.

    We believe the Jet Connect story is good story that is important to let people know about, which is why we posted it online on the Hungry Beast website and YouTube, and why our presenters directed people to it at the end of last week’s program.

    No that that’s cleared up, the final episode of Hungry Beast is on the theme of ‘Death’ and screens this Wednesday night at 9.30pm on ABC1, repeated on Thursday night at 10.15pm on ABC2 and on ABC iView as well.

    Please tell all your friends to watch,

    Andy Nehl
    Series Producer
    Hungry Beast

  4. or it could just be that the show is indeed over its time limit every single week but now as it gets to the end of the series where there’s fewer episodes to push it too, the team are happy to post things to the net. Who knows! kidding…. i know… thats exactly what happened.

  6. Maybe it was just too heavy handed and unfunny even for the Hungry Beast team to bring themselves to air on national television. Just a further possibility.

  12. Gotta agree with sacs on this one. I found it really suspicious how the story didn’t fit in due to time constraints, despite the fact they had been promoting it. It’s not as if the show’s live.

  13. Agree with Sacs. How could a very well planned show like Hungry Beast produce a story that wouldn’t meet timing requirements (particularly when it was promoted as a highlight of the show prior to the episode airing)… I’m more then a little suspicious about it…

  14. LOL a funny segment. It’s a shame that in this grouping of stories into similar subjects that segments like this don’t make the cut? But I guess it’s still good a show like this gets made at all.

  15. There was a time when I only flew Qantas and they really were the best. Not any more. Since they started conducting their maintenance in Malaysia where it is not performed to Australian standards, I will neither take the risk nor support the practice.

    They might win awards for the best wine in First Class but they haven’t won any overall awards for a while, and continue to slip down the rankings. It would be poor comfort to know that you have a glass of very nice red in your hand while bits fall off the aircraft in flight.

    And now this – lowering their costs by sending jobs offshore but still charging the same price. It’s an overused and often meaningless term, but I would say that Qantas is an un-Australian airline.

  16. This story was included in the ads for Hungry Beast and then mysteriously disappeared when the show went to air. I don’t believe the ‘couldn’t fit in the show’ line at all because surely HB promotes their best/funniest take on the subject at hand. There were other HB stories this week that seemed ‘padded out’ to me. Was the ABC threatened with legal action by Qantas and therefore the segment was cut? The ad promoting the segment was screened within an hour of HB starting. What Really happened?

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