Last modified: 2003-04-19 by jonathan dixon
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The airline company
Ansett, which is currently dying or about to be resurrected, depending
on who you believe, had a very good flag based on the Australian flag.
It had the Ansett logo (consisting of a yellow A-shape without the cross
bar, the right arm thicker than the left, with a white seven pointed
star nestled against/into the right arm at the bottom), at the hoist,
with the star roughly in the position of the commonwealth star on the
Australian nation flag, and the southern cross in the fly as in the Australian national flag. In my opinion it was quite a good
corporate flag. However, I have always found it interesting the
way that the older, "establishment" airline, Qantas, has the symbol that
is part of many people's idea for a new national flag (and makes some
people say the proposals look too much like an airline flag), whereas
the newer airline has the symbol using elements of the current national flag, and a flag which is very similar.
Jonathan Dixon, 28 Oct 2001