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The Qantas kangaroo logo made its first appearance in 1944, painted on a Liberator to celebrate the renaming of the Indian Ocean Route to "Kangaroo Service". The design was adapted from the design on the reverse side of the contemporary one-penny coin. [106]
This collaboration resulted in the introduction of the Skybed business class seat in 2003 and led to Newson being named as the first Creative Director of Qantas in 2006. [155] Newson was responsible for the design of the Qantas A380 fleet which first entered service in 2008, as well as the Sydney first class lounge. [156] [157] [158]
Purchased by Ameriflight in 2014, it was formally made a division of Ameriflight on June 1st 2024. [12] Union Airways: July 24, 1929: January 31, 1934 Union of South Africa: First South African airline; taken over by the government and renamed South African Airways. Australian National Airways: 1929: 1931 Australia: Trans World Airlines: July ...
In April 2021, members of the Qantas Board unveiled a new exhibit at the museum, a custom-made replica of the Boeing 747 onboard Captain Cook Lounges from the 1970s. The Captain Cook Lounges were features of the earliest B747-200s operated by Qantas from 1971, until the introduction in 1979 of Qantas's first Business class deck 747. [7] [8] [9]
Qantas was founded in Winton, Queensland on 16 November 1920 by Hudson Fysh, McGinness and Fergus McMaster as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited. [5] [6] The airline's first aircraft was an Avro 504K. It moved its headquarters to Longreach, Queensland in 1921 and Brisbane, Queensland in 1930. [7]
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.
The first QEA Liberator G-AGKT refuelling at Learmonth Airport prior to departing for Colombo in 1945. This was the first plane to have the new Qantas Kangaroo logo applied to it (below cockpit window). [38] In June 1944, Qantas augmented the Kangaroo Route's Catalina service with an additional route operated by converted Consolidated Liberator ...
Australian Airlines was offered first but was quickly snapped up by Qantas, which offered $400m to purchase the domestic carrier. Qantas then decided to merge the airline into its network. Subsequently the government offered the entire merged operation in a public float, after selling a cornerstone 25% stake to British Airways, returning Qantas ...