Word: ansett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short-range jet field, it got a head start with its sleek BAC OneEleven, of which it has sold 77, including 55 to U.S. lines. But the competition is overtaking the BAC One-Eleven. Douglas has sold 116 comparable DC-9s, including two last week to Australia's Ansett Airways. While Boeing has sold only 21 of its 737s, all were to West Germany's Lufthansa-an order that British Aircraft counted heavily on getting...
Fight the Government. The base of Ansett's empire is aviation, which produces about 62% of his income. Ansett owns eight airlines in Australia, which together constitute the biggest private aviation enterprise in the Commonwealth. Blocked by vast wastelands from easy travel on land, Australians fly enthusiastically for both business and pleasure. Last year the country's planes flew 3,000,000 passengers, and the load is expected to increase another 20% this year. Competing with government-owned Trans-Australia Airlines, Ansett flew more than half the national total in his 100-plane fleet, which ranges from small...
...pilot, he started out on the ground. In 1931 he set up a country jitney service with a secondhand Studebaker, did so well he soon had twelve cars. But the government refused him a franchise to operate into Melbourne because he was competing with government-owned railroads, and Ansett defiantly went airborne; no one seemed to care about the air. He bought a Fokker Universal, grandly painted "Ansett Airways" on its side, and began flying between Melbourne and Hamilton. He also took passengers along on stunt flights at $3.50 an hour...
Fire the Chairman. Ansett had in creased his fleet to seven planes by the end of World War II, but by then others saw opportunity in the air. The government set up Trans-Australia, and a private firm formed Australian National Airways. When the banker who served as Ansett's board chairman suggested that he sell out to competing Australian National, Ansett fired him, eventually bought out A.N.A. himself for $6,700,000. When the government ordered him to raise fares along with Trans-Australia, Ansett stubbornly refused and forced a backdown. "I've got a kind...
...Ansett thrives on battles, has irritated many Australian businessmen in his steady drive to increase his empire, and was widely criticized in 1958 for forcing a small Aussie airline into his holdings. "When I started out," he says, "I thought I'd work very hard until I was about 35 and then retire. But you never reach that stage. Your aim is to consolidate what you have built up, and there is always more consolidating to do." For Ansett, 55, there is always more expanding to do too. He is now intent on breaking out of Australia and getting...