Ansett closure at last
 

:ugh:Today the Ansett people finally got the last of their money. Ten odd years ago or so, during the night TE shut AN down. Nobody was told, not pax who turned up for their flights, the crews who did ditto, the engineers the same, and all the rest. Shock, fear, distress permeated the terminal, the hangers, the offices. TAA absorbed by QF, Ansett bled to death by Murdoch and TE, and now QF with a very shaky grip on its perch. I would never have thought in my lifetime I would see such happenings, I could never have imagined such fine Australian airlines, such achievers, with their great safety record, their fine engineers, such loyalty, such great standards, end up where it has. And only greed can be blamed, only greed. People don't change, give them something to be proud of and they will give you loyalty and hard work in exchange, ridicule them, care little for them, take away pride in their product, and you will reap the benefits. None. Take note QF, you have relied on loyalty from your staff for far to long, and God help us, none of us want to see another Ansett. QF urgently need another Ward, Menidue, or Yates to get them back on straight and level, or I fear for the future.

What do you mean by the last of our money? Have the administrators paid out the rest of the redundancies owing, or are you referring to some other money?
I just checked the Korda/Mentha webpage and the last update is dated December the 10th last year.

Nuthin' in my account, either :bored:

Friday 14th September 2001, a little after 03:00.....

That would equate to a massive amount of money required for a final payout.

Unfortunately, like Anthill, my account remains the same :(

I will bet that Korda/Mentha have made a tidy sum over the last 10 years sucking up what was left of the Ansett money.

They are nothing better than parasites.

Reported on ABC (NSW) last night. All monies to paid out. Hope you are all in line. Ten years, a disgraceful wait.

I hope all the ex AN folk get whatver they are owed ,a sad chapter in Australian Aviation . One we do not seemed to have learned from . Sad , all parties are going thru the same dance ritual today. Ah well!

I think the final payout is over the next 2 months, or so it was related to me.

Happy to see the end of this. Dragged on far too long...but, glad we were able to establish a fine new Australian company...Korda, Mentha! :*

In all fairness someone had to look after the corpse and get whatever they could out of it.
Yes it was a company maker for them but nobody was going to do it for nothing.
It could have been much worse.Many companies fold with no assets and lots of debt.
And yes I am owed quite a bit of money but consider myself fortunate compared to many others.

from the SMH site..

According the the ABC tonight, you get your money within twelve weeks. About time. Pity about the ones that did not cope, and are no longer alive, the whole thing a disgrace.

To quote the last CEO of AN "Absolutely " .mmmmm

The former AN cabin crew and groundstaff are still owed $17M in Superannuation which is a national disgrace. The money is being held by Mercer's as a residual fund to cover a possible former employee disability claim.

The government minister responsible is Shorten who has been less than helpful and does not respond to correspondence.

If you write to a member of parliment they are required by law to respond to your correspondance.

:ugh:Yes Neville, and they cover that by simply putting out a standard letter. Dear Mr. Bloggs, thankyou for your inquiry and your info has been noted, you will hear from us in a short period of time (pigs derriere) and in reality the letter has gone into the too hard basket. We have all had one of those.

I've never not received a reply from an MP or PM when I have raised problems or had a whinge.I may not get anything done or satisfaction but a reply has always come.
Next time you write cc it to his opposite number in the LIbs for a response.His staffers will note that the other side will know.Helps even things out a bit.

It may be worth remembering that of the 830 pilots at Ansett, only about 550 were working as pilots 4 years later. A lot of industrial knowledge lost forever.

I'm surprised that no University in Oz has taken to researching the wide ranging affects of 17,000 people being put out of work at one time. The effects on local businesses, property, etc, and of course, the human effects would be an interesting study IMHO.

Hi Buster,

The Ansett collapse caused a mini-reccession in Sutherland Shire as the discresionary spending of Ansett ex -employees stopped. Many businesses suffered as kids were pulled out of private school, dance classes, home renovations halted (except at my place), cars repossessed etc, etc...

I had a car that was salary packaged. I recieved 4 calls from wholesalers who expressed a willingness to 'help me out' by offering to take the car off my hands for about $15,000 below market rate. Lucky I had enough spare cash on hand to pay out the lease.

We were also bombarded with mail from real estate agents who all just happended to have cash buyers who were in love with our house and could offer a very quick settlement, if we were interested. Nah, we like our house and had paid it off.

Somebody in the company was obviously selling 'lists'--good luck to them, I hope they made some cash at a difficult time. I don't have much time for the vultures who were ready to make a fat profit at the misery of others.

My advise to anyone in aviation these days is dont carry a large house hold debt and be prepared to have to move or change career at a moments notice.

10 years on and I and most are still proud to say they were part of Ansett. Does anyone know what % we will end up with and how many % we have already received. I hope our mates at Qantas don't go through the same , unfortunately the writing looks to be on the wall for them .

PAYOUT??
 

GOT ZILCH,FED UP WAITING,JUST GOT GOOD MEMORIES ,LITTLE HOPE OF $$$$$$$$:ugh: