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offered first but was quickly snapped up by Qantas, which offered $ 400m to purchase the domestic carrier. Qantas then decided to merge the airline into its network. Subsequently the government offered the entire merged operation in a public float, after selling a cornerstone 25% stake to
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a few years later. At that point, the entire airline was officially renamed "Qantas
Airways Limited" continuing the name and livery of the parent company with the only change being the change of by-line from "The Spirit of Australia" to "The Australian Airline" under the window line with the existing
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had been turned into mud by heavy rain, creating operations manuals, passenger manifests, tickets, and load sheets — even making passenger steps and baggage carts because there was no time to buy them in the ordinary way — Captains
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Australian National Airways Commission came into existence in February 1946. The commissioners themselves were prominent high-achievers, including the director-general of civil aviation, the deputy director, a Labor party luminary
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Airport West Training Facility (formerly the TAA/Australian Airlines Flight Training Centre) for The TAA Museum. The museum displays artefacts from the life of TAA/Australian including service ware, uniforms, advertisements, and photographs and is open to the
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later purchased the Ansett terminal when it went broke in 2002. Any third airline operating there had to make do with the regional airline facilities. At other airports the two airlines had leased mostly empty terminals and installed all operational furnishings themselves. The airport authorities
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Commission and Ivan Holyman, the Chairman of ANA, with a view to recruiting Holyman as General Manager of TAA at the princely salary of £10,000 pa, and, when that offer was declined, of buying the near-monopoly airline outright. Holyman was not
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had been enormously popular during the darkest hours but was voted out at the first post-war opportunity. There was no certainty that the Chifley government would not be treated likewise, and the opposition was opposed to government ownership. Coles addressed the Commission at a meeting on 2
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leanings, the bill declared that the licenses of private operators would lapse for those routes that were adequately serviced by the national carrier. From this time on, it seemed, that air transport in Australia would be a government monopoly. However,
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announced that the then government-owned domestic air terminals would be effectively privatised and leased to the two domestic airlines. Compass, a threat to the TAA/Ansett duopoly, was granted severely limited access to terminal facilities.
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and the government-supported TAA. A major factor in the success of the government airline was the wise choice of aircraft. After initially utilising the venerable and readily available
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pure-jet but as Ansett felt this was too advanced at that stage for their own needs, both airlines were required to purchase the Ansett preference: the less advanced turbo-prop
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2892:Main airline
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1627:Douglas DC-8
1584:Douglas DC-4
1543:ice build-up
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1387:Douglas DC-3
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442:Keith Virtue
426:Bert Hinkler
422:Harry Hawker
414:World War II
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385:October 2012
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371:Please help
366:verification
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333:767-336ERs.
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3778:SkyAirWorld
3668:Emu Airways
3121:(franchise)
3049:Orange Star
3043:(including
2581:5 September
2481:6 September
1748:Airbus A300
1726:Coolangatta
1565:Rockhampton
1322:flying boat
1320:Amphibious
1155:Airbus A300
1143:Introduced
1091:Airbus A300
1067:Airbus A300
738:Boeing 727s
719:Convair 240
632:Aubrey Koch
562:Coles Group
315:Airbus A300
269:), renamed
3838:Categories
3678:Global Air
3484:Skytraders
3454:MinRes Air
3354:FlyPelican
3294:QantasLink
3162:Qudos Bank
3108:Jetconnect
2974:QantasLink
2794:Wings Away
2766:22 January
2740:26 October
2695:22 January
2659:22 January
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2607:22 January
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2507:22 January
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2198:22 January
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1946:Melbourne
1833:References
1827:VFL thirds
1699:Flight 408
1644:Boeing 727
1631:Boeing 727
1561:Flight 538
1531:registered
1207:Boeing 727
1190:Boeing 707
1113:incomplete
1048:TAA Museum
924:Neighbours
904:Boeing 727
894:Rebranding
884:Boeing 767
873:Wellington
751:aircraft.
711:Ansett-ANA
624:lend-lease
573:Reg Ansett
533:Beginnings
525:a form of
522:High Court
434:John Flynn
408:Background
296:Queensland
275:Australian
115:March 2007
85:newspapers
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