Sharp to take over Airlines of Tasmania's routes
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Finally, a rumour on pprune that I hope is true.
With any luck the state government will gift the other southern Tasmanian operators routes,aircraft and facilities to Mr Sharp and his professional team.
A sound financial decision by that donkey that sits in the premiers chair and his noddies is long overdue.
(My apologies to four legged donkeys everywhere as they are mostly friendly and quite useful.)
With any luck the state government will gift the other southern Tasmanian operators routes,aircraft and facilities to Mr Sharp and his professional team.
A sound financial decision by that donkey that sits in the premiers chair and his noddies is long overdue.
(My apologies to four legged donkeys everywhere as they are mostly friendly and quite useful.)
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With any luck the state government will gift the other southern Tasmanian operators routes,aircraft and facilities to Mr Sharp and his professional team.
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Well good luck to Sharpy & the gang
One has to wonder whether we shall be back here amongst these pages in the not too distant future talking about their intro with a Saab or two..............Metro's are great machines (well to some anyway) but seeing as they started out with PA31's then to go on too bigger machines the next stop will be a 30+ seater, Saab most likely I'd say. Crystal ball stuff? Well nufin' surprises me in aviation anymore!
I hope the Tassy boys/gals pilots/staff can tag along with Sharpys crew
Maybe back to metros' hey Baz?..who'd had thought!
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One has to wonder whether we shall be back here amongst these pages in the not too distant future talking about their intro with a Saab or two..............Metro's are great machines (well to some anyway) but seeing as they started out with PA31's then to go on too bigger machines the next stop will be a 30+ seater, Saab most likely I'd say. Crystal ball stuff? Well nufin' surprises me in aviation anymore!I hope the Tassy boys/gals pilots/staff can tag along with Sharpys crew
Maybe back to metros' hey Baz?..who'd had thought!
Wmk2
Get rid of the dinky toy Metro's and bring back the mighty DH114 Heron, nothing like doing IP250/1 limited panel with the old master happily reading the newspaper.
With a bit of luck Robert Redford of the airwaves will get Sharps to introduce the good old Flinders Island Flyaway weekends?
Is Noel Bowland still Aot agent on Flinders?
With a bit of luck Robert Redford of the airwaves will get Sharps to introduce the good old Flinders Island Flyaway weekends?
Is Noel Bowland still Aot agent on Flinders?
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Tread cautiously Sharp, the last time a mainland operator took over Tasmanian routes on behalf of another operator, (this being the earlier Airlines of Tasmania) they went broke very quickly. This company being Tamair who also operated Metro aircraft. Tamair's lucrative mainland routes could not withstand the cash drain Tasmania caused them.
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Good riddance to the Dornier, its a bucket of ........! By the sounds of it some pilots have been offered job & others have not. I should know more next week. May explain why little has been done to CCN since its nose wheel collapse.
However the refueller will not be happy, he is not a Metro fan.
However the refueller will not be happy, he is not a Metro fan.
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I think one of the main problems with both Tamair and Ausair's experiences in Tasmania were all the marginal routes they were doing. eg Tamair HBA-LST, HBA-DPO-BWT, HBA-SRN. And Ausair MBW-DPO-BWT , MBW-LST. If they had just stuck to the main routes,eg KNS and FLS, they probably would have survived. Anyway good luck to the Sharp guys.
