>Dear Friends > >There was an article in the Qantas inflight magazine about a new low-cost >carrier. Australian Airlines, due to begin operations on Oct 27, started >accepting bookings just a few days ago on May 8. Wholly owned by Qantas >"but managed separately, operated independently and will not compete with >Qantas on any routes", the airline will operate B767-300s configured all >economy. Operating to all the places Qantas has pulled out of (and presumably nobody wants to go?). They will apparently be starting with 4 QF planes - though which ones I have no idea. BTW, you are from Singapore aren't you Russell? I was up there last week fixing one of our planes that had become temporarily flightless. The time we had left (after fixing the said plane) was spent looking around the place. I have never been there before and I was very impressed with it. Anyway, back to aeroplanes... -- Regards, Simon Craig If it's not McBoeing, I'm not McGoing!