East-West and the BAE-146

[Stationair8]

Did East-West actually order the BAE-146 in their own right or did they get allocated to them from the humble Hungarian transport operater's airshow orders, when Ansett acquired them?

I was under the impression that East-West wanted to acquire a number of B737-200 in the mid 1980's in order to get ready for deregulation of the trunk routes. The F28's were onsidered too small for the golden triangle, and would be kept for thinner routes.

This will get old East West Loco in his Apple Isle travel agency fired up!
The ol' Datsun will be flogged on the way around to the RSL!

[Kanga767]

...dunno, but I remember them going through Darwin on their delivery flights...

[Zigzag]

An article I just read stated they were ordered by East West in Aug 88, even though Ansett bought EW in '87.

East West certainly maintained them in Tamworth in the early days, rather than an AN base.

Wasn't there talk a B737-200 and/or F-100 were actually painted in EW colours, but never actually got delivered???

[mates rates]

They did order 737-200's at one time can't remember what year, but it was before the destruction of the company by the Ansett take-over in 1987.Some senior management pilots even completed their 737 endorsements and route training with Royal Brunei.

[Wizofoz]

Easy West had a number of F-100s bought and paid for, with options for more when they were taken over by AN. They were forced to take the BAE 146, which was a disasterous aircraft for them.

The F-100s were leased out and later sold, having never actually made it to Australia.

[Buster Hyman]

Loco Bloko will be here any minute now....

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[zlin77]

East-West considered the B737-500 and the F100, The Fokker was chosen ,but with The AN takeover they were leased to a Canadian operator. Some management pilots did conversion training on B737-200's prior to all this with RBA.......when the decision was made to go with the Bae-146 we couldn't believe it at the time, however St. Peter had ordered about 50 of the sleds and they had to go somewhere.