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...country's workers as an anti-inflationary measure. The pilots, who earn an average of $61,000 a year, are demanding a 29.5% increase. To help out during the strike, the air force converted 14 military passenger aircraft to temporary commercial service. Australia's three domestic carriers, Ansett, East-West and Australian Airlines, have managed to maintain 40% of their daily flight schedules, in part by hiring foreign charters. (Qantas, an international carrier, is not affected by the strike...
...Boeing's sales climbed 49% in 1979 to a stunning $8.1 billion. Profits rose proportionately even more, to $505 million, an increase of 57% over the previous year. In the past two weeks alone Boeing has sold $1 billion worth of planes to airlines as diverse as Ansett in Australia, Cathay Pacific in Hong Kong and Western in Los Angeles...
...joined the company during World War II, he has signed up so many billions of dollars in deals with airlines that he no longer bothers to keep track. His latest coup: a $550 million contract three weeks ago for 727s, 737s and five 767s for Australia's Ansett Airlines...
...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...
...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...