King Oath - Sir Reg Ansett set the tone by commuting in his own helicopter - and why not?
These days the late Kerry Packer and others have taken a leaf out of his book.
Why waste time driving when you can fly???
I used to fly with an F/O that was a junior apprentice at Essendon many years ago.
He was out the back washing his car when Sir Reginald rocks up.
With a long cheesy grin Sir Reg says "whatyer doing there boy?"..... "washing my car Mr Ansett" was the sheepish reply from this 17 year old.
Sir Reg just laughed, threw him his own keys and said "I'll be back in half an hour lad, your doing such a good job there you can clean my car too!"
With that Sir Reg went into the hangars and spoke to the heavy maintenance engineers till his car was washed!
He made a point of thanking this apprentice afterwards before driving off.
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