Originally Posted by
B772
plainmaker: Australia Asia Airlines was set up so services to Taiwan would not offend China. The IATA code for the entity was IM, the ICAO code was AAU, the call sign was Austasia. For all intentional purposes it was a new airline with both a B747SP and a B763. KLM did something similar with KLM Asia as a Taiwan registered subsidiary of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
As far a slots are concerned at LHR you can do what you like. I would be surprised if you were not aware QF has leased a pair of slots to BA.
Thank you 772 for reminding me what I did back then. It is not just tech crew that wander through this (and other) forums. As to the QF/BA slots - remember when BA owned a substantial part of QF? Most of the Board were either direct BA appointees (or BA influenced their selection). But then, Tubby still had some control. The environment has changed. I alluded before to NZ selling their LHR slot, rather than 'lease' it to the highest bidder. Why, because as I understand it, (and I am aware that NZ has declared that will NOT be going back to LHR via either the USA or HKG EVER), the owners of the airports wanted a clean transaction.
There are a few on here who belong to the 'little knowledge of a heap of topics' as opposed to being a specialist in a specific topic. For the life of me, I could not operate a joystick left or right handed and I reckon I would make a hash of an empty Bandit, but international agreements / contracts are my bread and butter - still working well beyond retirement. That other 'qualified' people might have a different interpretation, well that is what Authorities are for in our adversarial legal system.