• Trans Australia Airlines (TAA), renamed Australian Airlines in 1986, was one of the two major Australian domestic airlines between its inception in 1946...
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    board Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 were killed. The aircraft was TAA's first Fokker Friendship F-27 aircraft; TAA was the first airline outside...
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    Trans-Australian Airlines hijacking was Australia's first aircraft hijacking. It occurred on 19 July 1960 over Brisbane in a Trans Australia Airlines...
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    Australian Airlines was a full-service airline based in Australia, serving Australian and Asian destinations between 2002 and 2006. It was an all-economy...
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    on trans-Tasman flights. In Australia Trans Australia Airlines (TAA) and Ansett each operated three Electras on trunk routes between the Australian mainland...
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    transferred to Trans Australia Airlines (TAA) in 1946. The Two Airlines Policy was formally established in 1952 to ensure the viability of both airlines. However...
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  • up a second airline that commenced operations in December 1981, serving intrastate routes in Queensland vacated by Trans Australia Airlines (TAA) with...
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    first flew on 8 June 1959. It was delivered on 17 June 1959 to Trans Australia Airlines as VH-TVQ and named McDouall Stuart which operate until 1970. It...
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  • jet aircraft to Australian domestic airlines until 1964, when the Boeing 727–100 "Fan Jet" began flying. In keeping with the Two Airlines Policy, both TAA...
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  • east–west competed vigorously with major airlines Ansett and Trans Australia Airlines on inter-capital routes. The Australian aviation industry was highly regulated...
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  • The airline also operates a limited number of short-haul international flights. Australian law prohibits majority-foreign-owned local airlines, like...
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  • tááʼ, or tâa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. TAA stands for Trans Australia Airlines, now part of Qantas. TAA or Taa may also refer to: Tumor associated...
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  • list of airlines that have a current air operator's certificate issued by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority. List of defunct airlines of Australia List...
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  • Brisbane in the Australian state of Queensland. In August 2014, the airline changed its name from Our Airline to Nauru Airlines. Nauru Airlines was established...
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    List of airports in Australia ch-aviation.ch "Aaron airlines". Airline History. Retrieved 29 May 2021. "Adastra Aerial Surveys". Airline History. Retrieved...
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  • Retrieved 9 July 2021. "Airbus A300 Production List". Planespotters.net. Additional A300s for Qantas? Australian Aviation issue 94 March 1994 page 17...
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  • period of the policy, the two airlines were the privately owned Ansett Airlines and the government-owned Trans Australia Airlines. Though persisting for some...
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    Gunn, John. Contested Skies: Trans-Australian Airlines, Australian Airlines, 1946–1992. St Lucia, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland Press...
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    Arthur Coles (category Independent members of the Parliament of Australia)
    British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines (BCPA) and the Australian National Airlines Commission (see Trans Australia Airlines). He was appointed chair of...
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  • Airlines (MMA) was a Western Australian airline that operated between 1927 and 1993. It served a changing roster of destinations in Western Australia...
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  • Argentine cable news network Trans Australia Airlines (IATA airline designation "TN" until 1994), a defunct Australian airline Transports en commun de Neuchâtel...
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     Australia Aeropelican Air Queensland Flight West Airlines MacRobertson Miller Airlines Skywest Airlines Sunstate Airlines Trans Australia Airlines  Canada...
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  • agreed in its Airlines Case decision. That did not, however, prevent the Government from starting its own airline, Trans Australia Airlines (TAA), in 1946...
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    26, 1959, with Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS); 282 were built until production ended in 1972. It was ordered by airlines on every continent and operated...
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    International Airlines with Dart 525 engines and 51 seats, five built, first delivered in January 1959. Type 816 Production variant for Trans Australia Airlines with...
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    Service Trans Australia Airlines (TAA)  Fiji Fiji Airways / New Hebrides (Vanuatu) New Hebrides Airways Air Melanesiae  New Zealand Great Barrier Airlines Data...
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  • As a result of the Australian government's Two Airlines Policy, airlines other than Ansett Australia and Trans Australia Airlines were not permitted to...
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    Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (VARA) is an Australian regional airline based in Perth, servicing key towns in the state of Western Australia. The airline...
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    nationally owned domestic airline, Australian Airlines, renamed from Trans-Australia Airlines in 1986. Australian Airlines's aircraft started to be rebranded...
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  • no casualties. July 19, 1960: In Australia's first hijacking, a man threatened to blow up Trans Australia Airlines Flight 408, but he was disarmed by...
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