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DVA10670
Captain, B737-800

Joined on April 14 2012
B737 50 Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Toowoomba, Queensland Australia

84 legs, 202.7 hours
77 legs, 190.6 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on March 01 2017 22:26 ET by Christian Bonenfant

Hi all, I am currently progressing through the Koala club accomplishment and notice that our national capital Canberra (YSCB) has not been included. Also notice that Alice Spring,and Broome have also not been included. Both of these our very popular with tourist who visit our shores. Anyway I am just proud to be an Aussie, hope someone can include the above or let me known why it can't be done. I do appreciate all the work that goes into these routes and accomplishments and wish I was clever enough to help in some way. Thank you

Christian Bonenfant

Captain, B737-800

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV
E-MAIL

Joined on January 30 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Tri-Jet Triumph
US Coastal Club
Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
US Mountaineer Club
Toulouse 250 Club
Online Eight Century

Charlotte, NC

1,283 legs, 1,792.7 hours
837 legs, 1,044.3 hours online
1,265 legs, 1,770.7 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on March 02 2017 07:06 ET by Andrew Vane

I'll look into adding them. The airports I chose are primarily airports that Virgin Blue flies to, which is a Delta codeshare. So, we don't include all Aussie airports, only those that are Delta codeshares. I'll give this some thought and do some research. There may be some historical link to Delta I can discover to add Canberra and others.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

DVA10670
Captain, B737-800

Joined on April 14 2012
B737 50 Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Toowoomba, Queensland Australia

84 legs, 202.7 hours
77 legs, 190.6 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on March 02 2017 21:49 ET by Christian Bonenfant

Thanks Andrew, in your search for historical link, Australia had two national airlines which have now being disbanded. They were Trans Australian Airlines AKA TAA and Ansett airlines, and Qantas was and still is our national airlines. TAA was founded in 1946 and merged with Qantas in September 1992. It ceased operation in April 1994. it was renamed Australian Airlines in 1986.
Ansett Australia also known as Ansett-ANA and Ansett was founded in 1936 Reg Ansett and survived for 66 years before fate intervened. In February 2000 Air New Zealand acquired full ownership of Ansett, due to mounting debts and mismanagement and competion with Qantas, Virgin, Compass, and other airlines it was forced into bankruptcy.!6,000 personnel lost their jobs, sad in Australian aviation. Ansett ceased operation on 13 September 2001 (Mark 1), it was briely revived as ansett Mark 2 but ceased operation on 4 March 2002. Ansett flew domestic and international flight 88 destinations and was a member Star alliance from 1999-2001
Hopefully that will help you Andrew, cheers.

Christian Bonenfant

Captain, B737-800

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