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Qantas ordered twelve Airbus A380-800s in 2000, with options for twelve more. Eight of these options were exercised in 2006, bringing firm orders to twenty. Qantas is the third airline to receive A380s, after Singapore Airlines and Emirates. [39] [40] The main domestic competitor to Qantas, Ansett Australia, collapsed on 14 September 2001. [41]
The company heads of Qantas Airways Limited are only listed from 1993, when Qantas' shares once again traded on the stock exchange as a publicly listed company, following the Australian Government's move to privatise the remaining 75% of the airline. Throughout Qantas' history, since 1920, there have been many structures, branding and ...
The incidents between 1942 and 1944 were during World War II, when Qantas Empire Airways operated on behalf of the military. [3] While strictly speaking not accidents, the shootdowns of G-AETZ and G-AEUH are included for completeness. In 2014 and 2023, Qantas was rated the world's safest airline by Airline Ratings. [4]
A Boeing 707 and Boeing 747-200 at Longreach's Qantas Founders Outback Museum. Qantas has had a varied fleet since the airline's inception. Following its foundation shortly after the end of the First World War, the first aircraft to serve in the fleet was the Avro 504K, a small biplane.
In 1986 Trans-Australia Airlines was renamed Australian Airlines, [10] which merged in September 1992 with Qantas. Qantas was gradually privatised between 1993 and 1997. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The legislation allowing privatisation requires Qantas to be at least 51% owned by Australian shareholders.
The Qantas Founders Museum is located 177 kilometres (110 mi) from Winton, Queensland, the original home of Qantas. The museum tells the history of Australia's national airline Qantas, from its early beginnings in Outback Queensland in the 1920s to present day. Qantas was registered on 16 November 1920 and held its first Board Meeting in Winton ...
Qantas is Australia's longest serving airline. Articles related to it are categorised here. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 ...
Passengers boarding a Trans Australian Airline flight at Adelaide Airport, 1968. Up until World War II, Australia had been one of the world's leading centres of aviation.. With its tiny population of about seven million, Australia ranked sixth in the world for scheduled air mileage, had 16 airlines, was growing at twice the world average and had produced a number of prominent aviation pioneers ...