Qantas
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Qantas is the name and callsign of the national airline of Australia. Qantas is the second oldest continuously running indepedent airline, second only to KLM, and it is the 11th largest airline worlwide.
Qantas originally stood for “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services.”
Founded in 1920 by Paul McGuiness, Hudson Fysh, Fergus McMaster and Arthur Byrd, Qantas’ first aircraft was an Avro 504k purchased for the princely sum of £1,425. Nowadays, Qantas has a much larger fleet which includes Boeing 787-8s and 787-9s.
Recently, Qantas have been named as the second best airline in the world. Eager to stay pioneers, Qanatas will be one of the first airlines to trial the use of mobile phones on board one of it’s Boeing 767 planes, allowing customers to send and receive emails, text messages and phone calls.
As an aside, Qantas are the main sponsor for the Qantas Wallabies, the Australian national Rugby Union team. They also have sponsor and shirt rights to Australia’s national soccer team, the Socceroos.
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