Australian TAA Commercial 1972

[fjbutch]

Dame Kiri's favourite commercial ...

[147258GS]

Hire a Kingswood! Woo Hoo!!

[simjom02]

This is one schizo ad

[paulanthonydfw]

kind of circus like

[BROOKS39]

Farnham sux

[Vpmatt]

I wondered why the guy on this ad is so fucking annoying. Johnny Farnham....

[vidormike]

What's wrong with John? Early days those were. He sure refined his act in the 80s One of the greatest! Glad TAA got to use him.

[algabful]

@vidormike I also loved the other commercial he did a lot later... where he is walking towards the plane and everyone begins to walk with him. It starts with him singing/saying 'Someone told me TAA was a little bit more friendly..."

[MarleyAndFriends]

That is a good TAA commercial

[heine71]

Take off on Robert Preston's Music Man character?

[OthelloCat]

And Johnny Farnham was just as annoying then as he is now.

[CrazyBoutThe70s]

not as annoying as you!

[justadddave]

That was to fast for me :P

[Brac1]

Wrong on both counts - it was owned by the Australian government as Australia's domestic airline - and Qantas as the international airline. In '93 - they merged both of them together and sold them off as one - Qantas.

[allanmajestic]

You forgot to mention that TAA changed to Australian Airlines, and was forced out of the market due to deregulation.

[Brac1]

True, forgot to mention that one, they dropped the "Trans" and added "n" ;-) Although I dont think they were forced out, by nature "de-regulation" meant the end of a government controlled domestic airline.

[allanmajestic]

Yeah, it meant the start of price wars! Also

wasnt there a fourth airline introduced at the time which went bust pretty quick? Soon after Ansett was forced out of the game too!

[OthelloCat]

That was East-West in the early 90s.

[allanmajestic]

thats right. werent they a regional airline that went domestic?

[ansettaddict123]

the first entrant into the post deregulation scene was compass airlines but bankrupted because it usedd the wrong sized aircraft (a330's, way to big for the time)

[ansettaddict123]

taa wasnt renamed to australian airlines!!! taa was absorbed into qantas in mid 1993 (becoming the domestic arm of qantas) after deregulation of aviation and low cost entrants into the australian makrket qantas formed a wholly owned subsiduary called "australian airlines" (to compete with the likes of virgin blue and inpulse) australian wasnt very successful so qantas shut it down and several years later formed what we now know as jetstar:)

[MarkJSau]

To ansettaddict123. TAA was renamed Australian Airlines in 1986. It was sold by the Federal Government to the (by then) privatised QANTAS in 1992. I was a regular passenger in the Australian Airlines days and then when the domestic carrier went to QANTAS (the cabin crew I knew called it Qandom). For several years afterwards my QF frequent flyer designation on boarding cards said 'Flight Deck', a hangover from the TAA/Australian Airlines days

[ansettaddict123]

i dont get the last bit:P

[ansettaddict123]

correct:)

[Brac1]

Wrong on both counts - it was owned by the Australian government as Australia's domestic airline - and Qantas as the international airline. In '93 - they merged both of them together and sold them off as a privatised company, Qantas effectively taking over them.

[heine71]

Was TAA owned by TWA?

[mubd1234]

No, it was owned by Qantas.

[GermanicAussie]

lol I thought all Australian airlines are owned by the TWU!!!

[heine71]

What's TWU?

[GermanicAussie]

It's a bit tongue in cheek. TWU is the Transport Workers Union, the union which represents most of the ground staff in most airlines in Australia. They are very militant and will strike at the drop off a hat