From memory Ansett had an archaic union rule that the 767's had to accommodate a flight engineer even though the plane didn't require one. Love seeing the old liveries of Air New Zealand.
I flew for America West Airlines starting in 1989, and the equity from Ansett (along with our periodic exchange of 737 aircraft as well as select flight crew) added some texture to our airline even if it only lasted until our bankruptcy in 1991. I remember their 737-300s came from a number of sources and reflected a wide variety of unusual configurations as opposed to ours.
Likewise for me. Perth to Brisbane. I was in the last row. I was 24. Just promoted to State Sales Manager Nestle Qld. Totally green and full of ambition.
What a truly superb and all compassing history channel you have created here and regardless of the attempts to sabotage it with #adverts and suchlike I’m deeply for your imparting your extensive knowledge with us all and please keep it coming Sir. ☘️📚🇬🇧 #OurHistory.
Nunawading = ‘nun ah wad ing’ Abeles was a clown and a corrupt one at that. He might have been good at TNT but had no idea at Ansett. The other problem with Australia is that it’s a large country without the population or traffic to sustain multiple large airlines. Was always a bit sad to sit in the beer garden at the Oxford Scholar near the old Ansett building and see all the memorabilia that had been donated - which later got thrown out.
Well done storyline. Poor Ansett never stood a chance, especially once Abeles got involved with the Australian government's insistence for Air NZ to buy them to operate inside Australia despite the airline already being a lemon by then. Air NZ was not much better under its useless management of the 1990s.
It was due to the heavy top management that caused Ansett to collapse as Air NZ had ended up buying a lemon which many of us at Air NZ new. There was so much in costs that were hidden in the purchase that once purchased came to light and the 9 11 incident was the final nail in the Ansett coffin.
It’s true.. I ❤ to fly with Ansett too…the flight attendants were so nice , friendly and helpful,good service. I felt disappointed when they were gone ,still miss those days..
Excellent unbiased review. As someone from AirNZ who worked closely with the Ansett staff during the Star Alliance tie-up, We spent hundreds of hours (and $$$) trying to make it work. We almost went totally out of business due to the efforts but, blatant misdirection moved the blame to AirNZ rather than the real culprits (elegantly shown here!) The good side was commuting from Auckland to Melbourne every week, but, most good things come to an end. The bad side was losing touch with the many Ansett friends we made !
I was booked on an Ansett flight the morning it went bust. Could not believe it. I had flown Ansett for years with the company I worked for. It was a sad day for Australia.
Australian domestic car manufacturing was *NEVER* economically viable. The foreign American and Japanese car companies only maintained a manufacturing presence in Australia due to: (a) imported car tariffs which made superior imported cars too expensive for ordinary consumers, and; (b) the Australian Government was obliged to pay a corporate bribe to the car companies. When these 2 conditions were no longer true, the foreign car companies promptly departed Australia. An American business analyst has a much better understanding of the former Australian car industry than those who live in Broadmeadow and Elizabeth. Irony. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SAhBpCLsA2I.htmlsi=WJF2wPaeZhnxpMh_
@@paulmiller591 the R&D is still in Australia. Ford have their R&D in Epping and near Werribee, and Toyota in Altona. And I rather have the Japanese, South Korean, Chinese, German, French and American taxpayers subsidise my car thanks.
Nunawading Studios - Home of Neighbours, Prisoner (Cell Block H), and others. 😊 10:40 That must be the building there. The short side of the red bricked part was used for the exterior shots of the prison in Prisoner. That whole area is much more developed now.
Great story sir. Opened my eyes up as to what was going on in my home country and adopted country. Australia and New Zealand relations have always been complicated, first by sport, then my army alliance. Of course government intervention has been a major thing in the airline industry, and i really don't see how any airline makes a real profit these days, cost of safely, fuel, never mind planes and the relatively low cost of flying doesn't seem to as up economically. I don't know what writes one of the comments was talking about, you probably can't afford a proof reader on this network, but to me your stories are fascinating most of the time and art the least interesting. If there are errors I'm pretty sure they're unintentional so ignore the nay sayers and please continue.
32:10 The NZ PM wasn't barred from landing in Melbourne, she was blockaded from leaving! In the end, they had to sneak her to the Air Force base at Sale and get her out that way.
flew ansett many times from melb -> sydney in the late 80s and early 90s. The best domestic austalian carrier, better than anything before and anything after.
Impulse Airlines was based out of Williamstown Airport in Newcastle during it's tenure. That said the controversial collapse of Ansett was in the news for days and so were the protests by the aviation unions. The latter of which was of a scale almost similar to the boycotting of Frank Sinatra and his controversial 1974 Australian tour in which he called a female journalist a "Hooker".
Another well-researched video, Rory. Thank you. There was so much verbal abuse and vitriol when Ansett collapsed. People with large points balances in Ansett's frequent flyer program lost all their points and status credits. Passengers hoped that Qantas or Virgin might honour them, to no avail. There was also a bit of a stink when Virgin said they'd take on as many Ansett cabin crew as they could but they seemingly only selected the youngest and best-looking women. Your footage of Ansett staff in tears consoling one another was very real and cathartic. The ad campaign to re-launch Ansett used the Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush song "Don't Give Up" in an attempt to win over the flying public. I think Ansett was too far gone to have nothing short of a miracle or divine intervention rescue them. They went down for a third time, like a drowning man, and stayed down. I don't think Virgin Blue- now Virgin Australia- made a profit in its first decade of operation. The aim was to get as many "bums on seats" as they could and they squared off against the new low-cost offering from Qantas, JetStar, in a price war that did neither airline any good. JetStar could be viewed to have had its "big brother" Qantas to back it up, though the same could be said for the rest of the Virgin group backing their side. Virgin has had its own problems since then, starting around the time of the outbreak of Covid-19. Fun fact: Virgin Australia was initially called Virgin Blue for a reason. Their planes were predominantly red in colour and an Australian nickname for a redhead- especially a man- is "Bluey". As others have mentioned, a country as big as Australia which has a population of only around twenty-seven million people is always going to be tough for any new airline to break into: Compass, Impulse, and most recently Bonza have all fallen foul and perished, despite the best of intentions and re-worked business models. Regional Express (REX) took on the big players for inter-capital routes and is in a lot of trouble as a result. They should have kept to their own backyard servicing the smaller cities and towns that Qantas, JetStar, and Virgin don't. Another fun fact: One of the busiest inter-urban air routes in the world is between Sydney and Melbourne.
I remember flying ansett nz and then next thing I know it's qantas nz then jetstar Also so typical of post war commonwealth nations, we are gonna stop monopolys by having 2 state run airlines.
Politicians know which side their bread is buttered on. Which is why they won't mess with Qantas and Virgin, especially not their slots. That means the Bonzas, REX, Tiger (even an airline backed by Singapore Airlines couldn't make it) start from a hopeless starting position.
@@michaelhoffmann2891 I'm talking about when the aus government made the two airline rule and only allowed Qantas and taa to operate when they owned both. It's like when the nz government said air new Zealand and NAC couldn't compete when nac was domestic and air new Zealand was international only but both nationally owned
Qatar is a transliteration, and an imperfect one because peninsular arabic has different letter sounds to english. So you're never going to get consistent notation of something that comes from a completely different language. Also, it's pronounced closer to 'Cutter' than 'Katar' - the first a-sound is somewhere in the middle of a 'u' as in bug and 'a' as in car.
Dont just love government interference, control, law changes, inside trading, corruption, outside interest like railway, grain n other farming industries, worse then communists everything they did or touch stuff our trading industry all on backs of Australian taxpayers. We could had inland, country railways, airports running efficiently instead we got wasted money, complete waste of railways especially out in rural area n inland way but major inland highway to support future tansport, well done Australian fed n state governments.
