airlines

Before “I still call Australia Home” and the Australian Children’s Choir commercials Qantas were “the spirit of Australia, the flying kangaroo”. This commercial is from 1983.

British Caledonian Airlines were around in the 70’s & 80’s. Originally the Scottish charter airline Caledonian airlines, at the time Britain’s second largest, wholly privately owned airline, took over British United Airways, at the time the largest independent British airline.  The takeover enabled Caledonian to become a scheduled airline and with time the merged entity […]

JetBlue Airways have launched an innovative new package – a $US599 “all you can fly” ticket for a month in an attempt to jump-start summer and also to increase trial of the airline.  What the ticket or pass allows you to do is get unlimited economy/coach travel to any of their 56 destinations between Sept […]

Whilst Qantas now is considered the business airline, it really wasn’t always that way in Australia.  Ansett was more orientated toward the business market, perhaps because it was one territory they could get inroads into against the national carrier. In the 90s they launched a series of intiatives aimed at increasing their share of this […]