Originally Posted by
tail wheel
1 June 1987 - 5 May 2022. Just short of 35 years before yet another Australian airline gets 'acquired' and will ultimately disappear into the annals of Australian aviation history.
Probably inevitable...........
Have you asked the employees and aircrew of the following present and past airlines whether they benefited by their employer airline being acquired by Qantas?
- Qantas Freight (since 2001)
- Jetconnect (since 11-Jun-2001)
- Eastern Australia Airlines and Sunstate Airlines, operating under the QantasLink brand (since 2002)
- Jetstar Airways (since May-2004)
- Network Aviation (since Feb-2011)
- Express Freighters Australia
- Jetstar Asia (49%, since 2004)
- Jetstar Pacific (30%, since 2007)
- Jetstar Japan (33%, since 2012)
- Fiji Airways (46%)
- Alliance Airlines (19.9%, since 2019)
- Australia Asia Airlines
- Impulse Airlines
- Australian Airlines
- Hazelton
- Kendal
And many other airlines over the decades that were acquired by Qantas?
Tailwheel,
with due respect, half the airlines you have named were not acquired by Qantas.