--=======71D527AB======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-25321033; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit At 02:56 PM 2/10/2003 Monday -0800, you wrote: >I believe Air New Zealand was also state owned. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Michael A. Burris" <yul@prodigy.net> Well, it is again! (at least, mostly) Most of the major carriers outside the USA started government-owned, or were government-owned for part of their existence. The website I refer to at the end may prove me wrong! The move to "private" ownership is relatively recent in many countries. Union Airlines in NZ was privately owned, but got taken over by the government as NZ National Airlines Corp. It was later merged with TEAL, also a government-owned, to form Air NZ. This was privatised, became the owner of Ansett, and in the process of recovery from the losses caused by that piece of idiocy, became majority government-owned again. Oh yes, there was a peculiar airline named BCPA, owned by Britain, Australia and NZ, which operated trans-Pacific flights with DC-6s and was split between QANTAS and the NZ government In my own country, Australia, ANA and Ansett were not government-owned, and after the end of WWII the Government set up an organisation to take over the airlines, but there was so much opposition that a new carrier was set up (Trans-Australia, or TAA - which later became Australian - a name now revived as a subsidiary of QANTAS.) QANTAS was originally private, taken over by the Federal Government in the 'forties, and "privatised" (which means made into a corporation of which 25% was sold to British Airways and the rest to the stock market). By this time it had absorbed TAA which was never privatised as an entity. Googling for this, I found: Airline history site http://airlines.afriqonline.com/airlines/index.html containing, amongst very many others, TEAL http://airlines.afriqonline.com/airlines/538.htm Air NZ http://airlines.afriqonline.com/airlines/539.htm Australian http://airlines.afriqonline.com/airlines/530.htm Ansett http://airlines.afriqonline.com/airlines/330.htm QANTAS http://airlines.afriqonline.com/airlines/112.htm which may not be completely up-to-date, but is an excellent resource. > > AIRLINE: > > > > Can anyone supply me with some names of airlines that > > were onced owned by their government, but are now > > private? > > > > I believe I can already offer: Air Canada, Quantas, > > Aeroflot and British Airways. Any others? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mike Burris > > Cambridge, Massachusetts > > --=======71D527AB======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-25321033 Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 1/27/2003 --=======71D527AB=======--