Ansett Australia
In January 2000, I was present at a meeting of Ansett management in Melbourne, to discuss a relaunch of the "Ansett Australia" brand, prior to the Sydney Olympic Games.
The scope of the project included a strategy to reduce costs and rationalise the route network.
The vision of the new network would have seen Ansett aircraft fly only SYD-MEL-BNE-PER and key ADL & CBR flights.
To my surprise, it was openly discussed that Virgin would service every "leisure" sector in strategic co-operation, from the Ansett terminals.
Later, the nature of these projects were changed, due to the purchase of Ansett by Air New Zealand.
The new entrant in Australian skies, began its life I believe, at that time.
The same format of operation has since been reflected by the TESNA bid and speculative SQ reports.