Aussie Jetstar workers held in Vietnam
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popeye49,
I do not know who you are, but will never understand why you, and others, have to be so rude and offensive on PPRuNe.
We certainly WERE.
Obviously many other aircraft may have visited Saigon and Hanoi prior to us, but we were the FIRST "Western" style Airliner (B767) to be based there and operate AS Vietnam Airlines, with all of us living IN Saigon.
The ONLY others there when we arrived were Russian built Airliners.
After we had been there for some time TEA began operating B737s there, and also Regionair with an A310, but we were the first.
You can NOT change history by abusing me.
I do not know who you are, but will never understand why you, and others, have to be so rude and offensive on PPRuNe.
We certainly WERE.
Obviously many other aircraft may have visited Saigon and Hanoi prior to us, but we were the FIRST "Western" style Airliner (B767) to be based there and operate AS Vietnam Airlines, with all of us living IN Saigon.
The ONLY others there when we arrived were Russian built Airliners.
After we had been there for some time TEA began operating B737s there, and also Regionair with an A310, but we were the first.
You can NOT change history by abusing me.
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I'm glad you qualified your statement by saying first western style 'airliner',
'cos I think the Yanks operated there for about 10 years from the mid '60s onwards.
Their venture ultimately failed too.
'cos I think the Yanks operated there for about 10 years from the mid '60s onwards.
Their venture ultimately failed too.
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I said western aircraft in my first post on this thread, there MAY have been some back in the 1930s or 40s for all I know???, but I thought it was obvious I meant AFTER the War, that is under the Communist Government. 
BTW ours did not fail, unless you mean Jetstar Pacific, ours was a wet lease to Vietnam Airlines to get them going properly Internationally.
We were very successful and opened up routes for them back to Australia, and among other places Moscow and Taipei, which they later took over in their own right.
BTW ours did not fail, unless you mean Jetstar Pacific, ours was a wet lease to Vietnam Airlines to get them going properly Internationally.
We were very successful and opened up routes for them back to Australia, and among other places Moscow and Taipei, which they later took over in their own right.
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I have consistently said on these forums that Qantas should not be investing outside Australia, specifically in Asian airlines, for the simple reason that there is nothing that Qantas can bring to Asia that Asia cannot provide cheaper and better itself.
I don't mean Jetstar but Qantas and Jetstar is owned by Qantas.
So that is definitely something that Qantas provided to an Asian country and that probably makes you sick but tough.
The problem I have is that someone may have stuffed that up somehow and that has possibly impacted on the name.
I have always been proud of Qantas, not necessarily the people running it but definitely the airline and it's history.
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Chill, I was trying to inject a bit of humour into what was starting to turn into a bitchfest. It wasn't the 'western' part I was highlighting but the 'airliner'. 10 years from mid '60s' onwards. Think about it.
