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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
British Airways, returning Qantas to the stock market after being absent from listing since 1947.
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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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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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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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437:Bert Hinkler
433:Harry Hawker
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382:Please help
377:verification
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3679:Emu Airways
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2592:5 September
2492:6 September
1759:Airbus A300
1737:Coolangatta
1576:Rockhampton
1333:flying boat
1331:Amphibious
1166:Airbus A300
1154:Introduced
1102:Airbus A300
1078:Airbus A300
749:Boeing 727s
730:Convair 240
643:Aubrey Koch
573:Coles Group
326:Airbus A300
280:), renamed
3849:Categories
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3495:Skytraders
3465:MinRes Air
3370:FlyPelican
3305:QantasLink
3173:Qudos Bank
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2985:QantasLink
2805:Wings Away
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2670:22 January
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1957:Melbourne
1844:References
1838:VFL thirds
1710:Flight 408
1655:Boeing 727
1642:Boeing 727
1572:Flight 538
1542:registered
1218:Boeing 727
1201:Boeing 707
1124:incomplete
1059:TAA Museum
935:Neighbours
915:Boeing 727
905:Rebranding
895:Boeing 767
884:Wellington
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