Forward—To The Good Old Days!
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Good Old Days!
pROGRESS is a wonderful thing, f- , but sometimes you have to go backwards to achieve it, even though s °me people claim it to be forwards . rbls 1S wb at is about to happen in the case of the TAA and Ansett ajna am services between Australia and New Guinea.
On August 26, when the two air lines finally replace the DC6B’s on their Australia-New Guinea runs with speedier Electras, they will nnally start providing New Guinea
people with the same aircraft the Qantas was just about to give ther before it was booted out of Ne\ Guinea by Ansett and TAA in 1960.
In those days, Qantas also operate* a twice-weekly service from Sydne to Manila through Port Moresfr with Electras, but they had to giv that away finally because the domesti airlines wouldn’t allow them to carr any traffic on the Electras betweei Australia and New Guinea.
The Electras will do the trip be tween Sydney and Moresby more than two hours faster than the rumbling DC6B’s.
They will leave Sydney a few minutes before midnight, instead of about 10 o’clock. What mum is to do with the kids while she’s awaiting this midnight horror departure is a problem that is already striking terror into the hearts of Territorial.