Stretching Australia’s Wings: Compass Mk1

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Stretching Australia’s Wings: Compass Mk1

06-12-2018, 01:33 PM

The advent of deregulation in Australia proved far from the boom of multiple startups that other markets delivered. In fact only Compass appeared at the start and given all the marks against it it is little surprise that it wasn't a success. Here is the crazy tail of the first serious competition to the big 2:

Stretching Australia’s Wings: Compass Mk1 - YESTERDAY'S AIRLINES

https://www.yesterdaysairlines.com/airline-history-blog/stretching-australias-wings-compass-mk1

November 1990 marked the date that the Australian domestic airline market was finally fully deregulated, however unlike in other markets this did not signal a rollercoaster of new entrant airlines. The Australian market had always been hyper-regulated and even with deregulation the grandfathered airlines, Australian and Ansett, had major advantages. So much so in fact

Compass Airlines A300B4-600 by rstretton, on Flickr

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