Drink-driving checkpoints worth every cent I think Brett Atkinson ( NZ Herald , May 21) might have a bit of a rethink on his assertion that seven police on.
Australia’s competition watchdog caught the company, which has 60% of market share, selling seats on flights that had already been cancelled. Qantas continued advertising more than 8,000 flights for an average of two weeks, and for as long as 47 days, even after that service had been scrapped.
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Len Taplin, holds on to wing struts on the Bristol Tourer. Picture taken by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith in 1923 and colorized by Benoit Vienne
Len Taplin was a war ace with 14 victories, a Distinguished Flying Cross winner, one of Australia’s first airline pilots, and just maybe the world’s first low-cost or budget passenger.
In 1921 Leonard Taplin signed up as a pilot with Sir Norman Brearley’s Western Australian Airways to operate Australia’s first airline service from Geraldton to Derby via most north-west towns.
However, the arrival of a last-minute passenger meant he would miss the date.
MIAMI – Today in Aviation, Ansett Australia (AN), a major Australian airline group, ceased operations in 2002 after 65 years of service.
Ansett Australia, headquartered in Melbourne, was a major Australian airline group. The airline operated throughout Australia and, beginning in the 1990s, to Asian destinations.
Following a financial crisis in 2001, the airline was put into administration and then consolidated liquidation in 2002, according to a deed of company agreement. The last flight landed on March 5, 2002.
Two Ansett Lockheed Model 10 Electra aircraft at Mildura in 1938. Photo: Museum Victoria Collections: http://mview.museum.vic.gov.au/paimages/mm/005/005092.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=92401031