Does anyone remember the days of Ansett when...

[leadman]

When I was a student .......

Wow, brings back memories... Wanted to go to Perth $600 TAA/AN (1980 $) but only earned $95 pw, so I did the bus, twice..... 72 hours SYD > PER. I don't even know if the buses still run that distance.

 

[Obzerva]

From memory, it was multiple flight numbers on the same day, as back in the 90's there was no direct flight between DRW and SYD (that I can remember), it was always either via BNE, CNS, ADL, or ASP.

There was a direct DRW-SYD on AN in Sept '99, remember being on it as a last minute change.
Was meant to be going DRW-CNS-BNE, but as I was on a staff AD ticket DRW-CNS started filling, so ended up being re-routed on the morning to DRW-SYD-OOL.
OOL was the destination I was after anyways, did miss out on what would have been my one and only look at GOV on the DRW-CNS flight, even if it was just seeing it out the window for the 20min stop.

 

[rotuma1]

Didn't they also do mystery flights for $99

Yes they were $129 when I did them in. I did one every month,usually got from Syd adl, bne, ool, hba or mel. At the time I think a Syd- mel return ticket was around $300 in Y.
Being golden wing was awesome as they gave me the best available seat, so usually sat in first class or business on return trip, with Y service. Also would fill in Avis form onboard for pilot to radio Avis car booking. Great day out