Airlines & transport
Ansett and the carriers that ran out of runway.
- ArticleAnsett Australia: the rise and fall of a national airline
Ansett Australia went from Reg Ansett's single plane in 1936 to administration in 2001. Here is how the national airline was built, sold and broken.
- ArticleAnsett's 2001 collapse: the job losses, stranded passengers and the entitlements fight
When Ansett grounded its fleet in September 2001, roughly 16,000 workers lost their jobs overnight. What followed was one of Australia's messiest corporate wind-downs.
- ArticleCompass Airlines: the low-cost challenger that crashed twice
In the early 1990s, Compass Airlines twice tried to break the Ansett–Australian Airlines duopoly and twice ended in administration. Here's how it happened.
- ArticleHow Air New Zealand took full control of Ansett — and what it cost both of them
Air New Zealand's acquisition of full ownership of Ansett Australia looked like a trans-Tasman masterstroke. It ended in one of the largest corporate collapses in Australian history.
- ArticleThe two-airline policy that shaped Australian aviation
How the two-airline policy shaped Australian aviation for four decades, from fixed fares and matched fleets to the deregulation that broke it.
- ArticleVirgin Australia administration: how 2020 saved the airline
The Virgin Australia administration of April 2020 was the biggest airline failure since Ansett. Here is how Bain Capital ended up owning the carrier.