Originally Posted by
Sunfish
“knock virgin into proper shape” do you mean to survive as a sustainably profitable airline or as a quick listing on the stock exchange?
I mean such that the airline's revenue routinely exceeds its expenses by a margin of around 15 percent, give or take, over a couple of reporting periods. In other words, in a markedly different fashion to the manner in which it had been run.
Originally Posted by
Sunfish
... the sale of Ansetts DC9’s to Evergreen.
Do tell. My recollection is that Ansett flew nine DC-9-31s (VH-CZA through CZI inclusive) from the late '60s through till 1982. Again, my recollection is that most of them were sold to Midway, the rest went to Marfreless/Corsair and ended up in US Navy service. None were sold to Evergreen; I'm pretty sure that they operated -32Fs and -32CFs, not -31s.