Pretty nice though typical European, I can think of a lot of airlines with a similar livery.
It would be more beneficial to the airline when leasing the aircraft also.

Air UK was purchased by KLM in 1997 hence becoming KLM UK. They had had a share in Air UK since 1987 with remaining shares being taken over later. For KLM I think they were just a feeder for Amsterdam to be truthful, hey BA pull out of the regions and KLM is given innuendo to bolster up the regions with connections to Amsterdam, excellent.
With Buzz being born KLM UK disappeared at Stansted though Buzz was later sold off to Ryanair (who cut a lot of their routes) and KLM was merged with KLM City Hopper.

Air UK Leisure went to Unijet.

Cyprioteagle, that was pretty interesting to read. I am quite interested in getting into the position you are in when I am older so reading that was rather insightful.

I believe that there would be problems with foreign ownership as well if you wanted to set up a carrier in the US. The EU would like to loosen ownership and control regulations also in this Open Skies deal with the US, however, at the moment an airline like Virgin could not start up a carrier as it is forbidden for outside an investor such as an airline, to control or set up another airline over there.

Quite an oddity considering an airline like Qantas could help partner American out by investing in them. Currently they could only take a 25% voting share in the airline though probably raising this would help as with the state of the airline industry it could spur on recovery.

Brilliance!

Here we go:
1- Air Jamacia A320
2- Portugalia Beech 1900
3- EVA Air 747
4- Air Greenland A330
5- Balkan Holidays TU-154
6- Bravia TU-204?
7- Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-86
8- Song 757
9- Vietnam Airlines 767
10- MEA A320

Some of those soviet ones were hard.

Well you might get to see Virgin Atlantic down there soon 😉 Plus the Alitalia looks likely with the 777 via Kuala Lumpa for the winter season.

Yeah, Paris will probably go to a code-share also I would think in the future. I know Qantas code-share quite a lot of with Cathay Pacific, I understand the CX Zurich route is the same.

Having possibly just Heathrow and Frankfurt as the European routes is pretty terrible, kind of demines Qantas’ place as a world carrier (although the North American routes are still around). Just look at all the destinations they have dropped in the last couple of years, Bombay, Shanghai and Vancouver as a few examples.

At least Qantas are still in good shape which is the main thing.