| 1936 |
Reginald Myles
Ansett founded Ansett. The first aircraft was a single engined,
six-seater Fokker Universal. Ansett's first flight was on February
17, 1936, from Hamilton to Melbourne. |
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| 1937 |
Reginald Myles
Ansett founded Ansett. The first aircraft was a single engined,
six-seater Fokker Universal. Ansett's first flight was on February
17, 1936, from Hamilton to Melbourne. |
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| 1942 |
Ansett assisted
in the evacuation of Darwin after it was bombed. |
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| 1946 |
Ansett expanded
its routes, flying to many parts of Australia. |
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| 1947 |
Ansett began
developing holiday resorts in the Whitsundays. |
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| 1950 |
Ansett opened
the Royal Hayman Hotel. |
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| 1953 |
Ansett introduced
the flying boat service in Queensland and introduced the Douglas
DC-6 to its growing fleet. |
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| 1954 |
Ansett introduced
its first pressurised aircraft, the Convair 340. |
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| 1957 |
Ansett bought
Australian National Airways (ANA), which was the biggest airline
in the country at the time, and changed its name to Ansett-ANA.
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| 1958 |
The Ansett
fleet grew to 43 aircraft including two helicopters. |
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| 1960 |
Ansett began
Australia's first airport to city helicopter service. |
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| 1961 |
.Ansett began
flights from Australia to Papua New Guinea. |
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| 1964 |
Ansett's first
Boeing 727 goes into service. |
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| 1967 |
Ansett's first
Douglas DC-9 goes into service. |
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| 1972 |
Ansett moved
its operation to Tullamarine, Victoria where it built a new
base. |
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| 1973 |
Ansett began
replacing the 727-100s with 727-200s. |
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| 1974 |
Ansett again
helped evacuate Darwin, this time after Cyclone Tracy. |
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| 1979 |
Control of
the company passed to The News Corporation Limited and TNT Limited.
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| 1981 |
Sir Reginald
Ansett died, aged 72. |
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| 1982 |
Ansett introduced
Golden Wing Club. |
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| 1983 |
Ansett introduced
the Boeing 767-200 with 211 seats. |
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| 1986 |
Ansett introduced
the Boeing 737-300 with 110 seats.
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| 1990 |
The name of
the airline became Ansett Australia several weeks before domestic
airline deregulation started on October 31. |
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| 1991 |
Ansett launched
Australia's first domestic Frequent Flyer program. |
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| 1993 |
Ansett Australia's
first international flights commenced on September 11, to Bali.
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| 1994 |
Ansett Australia's
first Boeing 747 Spaceships began flying to Japan and Hong Kong.
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| 1995 |
For the second
consecutive year, Ansett Australia won the NTIA airline of the
Year and the Australian Federation of Travel Agents Best Airline
awards. |
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| 1996 |
Ansett services
to Jakarta started on 12 January. Ansett won the National Travel
Industry Awards' Airline of the Year and the Australian Federation
of Travel Agents Best Airline Award, for the third year in a
row. |
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| 1997 |
The Olympic
Airline Team partnership of Air New Zealand, United Airlines,
Lufthansa, Malaysia Airlines, South African Airways and Thai
and a co-branded Ansett/Westpac/Visa credit card was announced.
Ansett's inaugural service to Shanghai operated on 8 June. Ansett
was named Airline of the Year for the 4th year in a row in the
new Australian Federation of Travel Agents National Travel Industry
Awards. |
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| 1998 |
Ansett International
suspended services to Seoul in February and to Kuala Lumpur
and Jakarta in May. Ansett and Air New Zealand became observer-status
members of Star Alliance and the Australian Competition and
Consumer Commission gave approval for the Ansett group, Air
New Zealand and Singapore Airlines alliance. |
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| 1999 |
Ansett became
a full member of the Star Alliance. Ansett International commenced
services to Fiji from Sydney and Brisbane. Inflight Research
Services named Ansett International best business class in the
world. |
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| June
2000 |
Australia's
Foreign Investment Review Board approves the Air New Zealand
purchase of Ansett Holdings Limited.
Air New Zealand completes the purchase of Ansett Holdings
Limited. This creates a new world top 20 airline and consolidates
a close working relationship established in 1996 and bringing
together two great airlines into one great team.
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| August
2000 |
Singapore Airlines completes the purchase of Brierley Investments
Limited B shares, thereby increasing their investment in Air
New Zealand to 25%.
Sir Selwyn Cushing announces a new Group structure and executive
appointments for the Air New Zealand Ansett group.
Ansett orders two additional Boeing 737-300 aircraft for
its fleet. The first aircraft is to be delivered in February
2001 and the second in May 2001.
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| September
2000 |
Gary Toomey
is appointed as President & CEO of the Air New Zealand -
Ansett Australia Airline Group. |
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| October
2000 |
The Ansett
Holdings Limited Group announced it intention to make a cash
offer of A$0.90 per share for all the issued shares of Hazelton
Airlines Limited. |
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| November
2000 |
Ansett launches
four non-stop Melbourne to Hong Kong flights per week. |
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| December
2000 |
Gary Toomey
starts as President and CEO of the Air New Zealand - Ansett
Australia Airline Group. |
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| February
2001 |
Air New Zealand
- Ansett Australia Airline Group announces a new Group structure
and senior management team as part of a plan to revitalise group
performance and profitability. The restructuring establishes
an integrated group of functional units. |
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| September
2001 |
Ansett Australia had to stop all operations while Air New
Zealand was rescued with new money form the government and
the big stakeholders.
16'000 employees of Ansett lost their jobs.
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Source:
Ansett Australia
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