Idea not flying yet
DON'T count on the resurrection of Ansett any day soon.
Peter Schooling, the boss of Melbourne advertising company Bravo Tango Bravo, created a mild stir in aviation circles yesterday when he placed an ad in The Age featuring the slogan ''The Phoenix?'' above a shot of a passenger jet emblazoned with ''Ansett Airlines of Australia''.
The blogger and part-time plane-spotter, who registered the Ansett trademark six months ago, admitted he wanted the ad to be a ''bit of a teaser to see what might come out of the woodwork''.
''I placed the ad as a fishing expedition to see what was out there. If you don't shake a tree to see what comes out of it you will never know,'' he said. ''My staff have already told me that 'you wouldn't believe the number of emails coming in from people that wanted to see Ansett come back into the skies'.''
But he admitted that as of yesterday Ansett Airlines was still nothing more than a trademark.
Peter Schooling, ur a knob