Signs of lost but not forgotten airlines

[Warks]

Thought it would be nice to have a thread for sightings of signs of defunct airlines. I spotted this shopfront in Innisfail, north QLD last week and had to get a shot.

Would love to see if others have some signs of Compass, East-West etc. Or even overseas airlines like Pan Am.

 

[Mattg]

I saw this advertisement in a Budapest metro station earlier this year:



Interflug (and the German Democratic Republic, for that matter) ceased to exist in the early 1990s.

 

[RooFlyer]

Thought it would be nice to have a thread for sightings of signs of defunct airlines. I spotted this shopfront in Innisfail, north QLD last week and had to get a shot.

Would love to see if others have some signs of Compass, East-West etc. Or even overseas airlines like Pan Am.

I've been thinking of the exact same thing!

I think there is still an Ansett sign on sheds as you approach Melbourne airport and there used to be another Ansett sign in Charters Towers (QLD) main street, but I haven't been there for a while.

 

[graxx]

I'm moving office at the moment and have been clearing out years of valuable saved objects- including my platinum life-time Ansett FF card (they didn't tell me it was their lifetime not mine!!) A small sign but a sad one!
I also saw an Ansett plane with the full A/Star logo on the tail in Berlin a while ago- I'm sure there are still a few of those in the air.

 

[Flying Fox]

I'm moving office at the moment and have been clearing out years of valuable saved objects- including my platinum life-time Ansett FF card (they didn't tell me it was their lifetime not mine!!) A small sign but a sad one!

What did you have to do to gain 'platinum life-time membership'?

What benefits did you get?

 

[Himeno]

It's been a few years since I've seen it, but there's a travel agent in MEL CBD that has signage with old airline logos, inc AN.

 

[Warks]

Anyone see a Qantas logo with the wings still on the roo? (the flying kangaroo) I saw one a while ago but can't recall where.

 

[graxx]

What did you have to do to gain 'platinum life-time membership'?

What benefits did you get?

I think it was a special offer that you just paid money for. The benefit was that it was a one-off payment and no annual subscription.
Turned out to be not a great deal, but my 650,000 points was a worse one. Annoyingly I had earned most of them of partner international airlines, but they went down with Ansett.
The whole sad exercise with Ansett was pretty tragic, as Virgin have proved there is demand for an alternative to Qantas.

 

[graxx]

Thought it would be nice to have a thread for sightings of signs of defunct airlines. I spotted this shopfront in Innisfail, north QLD last week and had to get a shot.

Would love to see if others have some signs of Compass, East-West etc. Or even overseas airlines like Pan Am.


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Interesting...that is the old Reg Ansett era logo!

 

[dajop]

I think there is still an Ansett sign on sheds as you approach Melbourne airport a.

Would that be the one at the back of the Ansett Aviation Training building?

On the original topic, I saw a food cart on board a Bangladeshi domestic carrier a couple of years ago from a defunct Australian carrier - can't now remember which one. Could have been Ansett. Edit: no it wasn't I remember now it was Ozjet food cart.

 

[toowongman]

Total long shot - if you take the train between Brisbane and Caboolture, just before Carseldine on your right there is an auto wreckers. Inside you can/could see an old Bedford Ansett (with the last logo faded away) stair truck.

 

[GoldCanyon340]

Anyone see a Qantas logo with the wings still on the roo? (the flying kangaroo) I saw one a while ago but can't recall where.

In a few years we'll be asking "has anyone seen a Qantas logo with the paws still on the roo?"

 

[leadman]

I think it was a special offer that you just paid money for. The benefit was that it was a one-off payment and no annual subscription.

From memory I think it was around the $3000 mark as I had a bit of a nasty boss at the time who would make it well known that the company paid for 1/2 his life-time membership, he paid the rest.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Hanging on the wall of Lester and Earl restaurant, Gold Coast Qld. Reproduction of a 1954 poster.

 

[harvyk]

Hanging on the wall of Lester and Earl restaurant, Gold Coast Qld. Reproduction of a 1954 poster.

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Reminds me of the Motor Racing Museum at Bathurst, a few of the cars there have TAA branding on them.

 

[drron]

From memory I think it was around the $3000 mark as I had a bit of a nasty boss at the time who would make it well known that the company paid for 1/2 his life-time membership, he paid the rest.

Mrsdrron got lifetime membership of the Golden wings lounge for $400.Lasted 7 years.

 

[leadman]

Mrsdrron got lifetime membership of the Golden wings lounge for $400.Lasted 7 years.

It was a lot more than that, from memory (again) it was 10 times the annual fee. I can certainly remember him making absolute sure we knew that he was a life member and that the company paid for a half. I think that is why when I travel I steer clear of bag tag's (another current post), acting like a DYKWIA etc, but just blend into the background and watch all the other people "play the game".

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Mrsdrron got lifetime membership of the Golden wings lounge for $400.Lasted 7 years.

She got it very cheap then.

My recollection was that it was about the cost that other form-ites had mentioned.

A number of my then senior colleagues had it at the time.

 

[drron]

Still had the receipt until a couple of years ago.It was a special offer through the RACP.My QC life cost only a little more.