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Points are earned through members flying on Qantas, Oneworld and other partner airlines. [1] Points can be redeemed for flights or upgrades across these airlines. The program also offers options to earn and redeem points through non-airline partners across the hospitality, retail, banking, insurance, energy, wellbeing, technology, motoring and ...
Qantas flies to 61 domestic and to 35 international destinations, including seasonal destinations, in 23 countries across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, excluding the destinations served by its subsidiaries other than QantasLink.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia was established by the Commonwealth Bank Act 1911, introduced by the Andrew Fisher Labor government, which favoured bank nationalisation, with effect on 22 December 1911. [10] [11] In a rare move for the time, the bank was to have both savings and general bank business. The bank was also the first bank in ...
The original QANTAS office in Longreach, Queensland, 1921 [37] QANTAS Avro 504K Dyak, 1921 Qantas Empire Airways Short Empire flying boats at Rose Bay in Sydney Harbour, 1939 Qantas was founded in Winton, Queensland on 16 November 1920 by Hudson Fysh , Paul McGinness and Fergus McMaster as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
Accrued points can then by redeemed at Woolworths Group stores (at a rate of 2,000 points for an A$10 discount), or converted to 1,000 Qantas Frequent Flyer points. Spending A$30 or more in a Woolworths Supermarket also gives a 4c/litre fuel discount voucher at participating Ampol or EG Australia branded outlets.
Membership was initially restricted to Qantas employees based in Sydney, although by 1964 employees of British Airways and Air New Zealand were permitted to join. In 1963, the credit union claimed that 20% of Australian-based Qantas staff were members, which was claimed to have increased to 50% by 1969 and 90% by 1980. [ 5 ]
The airline was established by Qantas in 2001 as a low-cost domestic subsidiary. Qantas had previously acquired Impulse Airlines on 20 November 2001 and operated it under the QantasLink brand, but following the decision to launch a low-cost carrier, re-launched the airline under the Jetstar brand. [8]
Qantas was privatised in March 1993, with British Airways taking a 25% stake in the airline for A$665 million. [34] After a number of delays, the remainder of the Qantas float proceeded in 1995. The public share offer took place in June and July of that year, with the government receiving A$1.45 billion in proceeds.