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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 1959, Qantas entered the jet age, with a delivery of seven Boeing 707 aircraft. [36]
In April 2019, Qantas Freight announced it would wet-lease two Atlas Air Boeing 747-8F aircraft to replace the two current wet-leased 747-400F aircraft. [22] The first aircraft landed in Sydney on 27 August with small Qantas Freight decals applied (visible when the forward nose cargo door is open), with the second due later in the week. [23]
By the end of 2016, the business class seats of Qantas' entire Airbus A330 fleet were refitted. Airbus A330 Business Suites are available on Asian routes, transcontinental routes across Australia and selected routes to New Zealand. [143] Updated versions of this seat were fitted to the airline's new Boeing 787 fleet from late 2017. [144]
Australian airExpress was a logistics company based in Melbourne, Australia.It operated freight-only services within Australia using aircraft operated by Express Freighters Australia (a subsidiary of Qantas), National Jet Systems and Pel-Air; and a fleet of land vehicles.
All Nippon Airways launched the 787 Dreamliner program with an order for 50 aircraft in 2004 A 787-8 of LOT Polish Airlines , the first European operator [ 2 ] The 1,000th 787, 9V-SCP, was delivered to Singapore Airlines in 2023 [ 3 ]
Qantas is Australia's longest serving airline. Articles related to it are categorised here. ... Qantas fleet; Qantas Founders Museum; Qantas Freight; H. History of ...
Three 737-300 aircraft were formerly part of the Qantas passenger-carrying fleet and are still owned by Qantas. [4] Express Freighters Australia also formally operated a Boeing 767-300F and currently operates a pair of Airbus A330P2F on behalf of its parent company Qantas Freight.
A dedicated fleet of six aircraft is operated by Qantas Freight for Australia Post and StarTrack from July 2016. [9] Mail Call Couriers is now a part of Australia Post StarTrack since January 2016. [10]