Interesting comments, but I often have wondered whether Ansett were worried that somebody from overseas may have come in and bought East-West prior to deregulation.
In those heady time Australian were buying up or buying into Sunststate, Eastern and Murray Valley Airlines while Ansett was buying a larger stake in Kendall's.
How did it TAA get around the two airline policy and rid itself of the F27 routes to Tasmania?
Did TAA and East-West have code share arrangements?