Originally Posted by
mckaj
Did not work in BA
Actually they worked very well for many years as AS would admit. They just became an (expensive) irrelevance after the introduction of the much more reliable 747-400, which coincided with a calming in the aviation industrial relations scene in Oz. The disruption of the 70s and 80s just stopped and so did the Sydney basings - which were only for 3 months at a time anyway.
To be a worthwhile proposition you would require cabin crew basings too, plus the support infrastructure plus standbys plus...............