today i am begining a new run of blog posts with a new topic of profiling airlines and airports this is about my national carrier qantas the worlds third oldest airline behind only the dutch carrier klm and the colombian carrier avianca the airline was launched in remote quennsland in 1920 in a place called winton the airline moved headquarters to longreach before operations started the carrier used british aircraft originally (probablly due to britian having a big influence on australia in those days) they where one of the main pioners in australian aviation the airline was only domestic unitl the early 1930s when using de haviland aircraft (the old british company not the canadian one) launching a deal with imperial airways (a predecessor of british airways) qantas operated as far as singapore but imerpial opereated the rest of the way the other big change before world war 2 was the introudction of flying boats at one stage a service from sydney to southhampton went via south africa due to the war in europe that combined with the war in asia hurt the operation the only way to england was via catalania flying boats from perth to sri lanka to meet the british flights in 1945 the world calmed down and qantas was taken over by the goverenment and became only international they expanded to japan and the philapines and pulled out of domestic market giving to taa they added constalations the longest range non-flying boats to their fleet this allowed them to expand long haul they decided to ignore the first jet the comet (good move they where dangerous) and kept expanding to the US 1959 saw them add the electra and their first jet the 707 which was the first non-us carrier to have it this started to reduce the number of refueling stops to london and getting to san fransisco with only two stops they also tried the stuppidest route to london via mexico and the bahamas from australia which is even longer than via the us when the 747 was delivered flights to london where via singapore and bahrain (the later was not needed later and was stopped) originally with the -200 series that lasted till 2002 by 1979 they had the 747sp allowing them to fly to the short runway at welington and to reire the 707 they also became the first carrier to launch bussiness class in the 80s they added 767s for less capacitiy orutes they launched a subsiduary just to fly to taiwan (due to political issues) they in 1992 than entered the domestic market when they accquired taa this was their first although brief use of airbus aircraft they also privatised they also began the oneworld alliance with big partners american and british airways as well as cathay pacific and defuncnt canadian airlines they also merged their regional partners into qantas link and accquired impulse airways there main rival ansett went bust but virgin entered the market they experiment with india in the 2000s with no luck they also reduce their presence in europe to 5 flights per day (4 of which to london) and one to frankfurt (which was dumped in 2013) the carrier had a crash in 1999 with no deaths and started getting a330s. in 2008 the a380 was added the airline than cut back to london in 2012 and began a partnership with emirates moving london flights to via dubai and axing their internatinoal routes out of perth briefly the airline added the first non-stop flight to london from perth.
hubs
sydney melbourne perth brisbane
large presence/stop overs
la singapore adelaide cairns.
terminals and destinations australia
sydney terminal 1 international terminal 3 domestic
melbourne terminal 1 domestic terminal 2 international
perth therminal 3/4
brisbane
adelaide
cairns
darwin
hobart
gold coast
regional by qantas link
albury
mildura
devenport
launceston
wagga wagga
tanworth
moree
armidale
lored howe island
gereldaton
karatha
broome
international
north america
los angeles tom bradly
new york terminal 8 (since 2018)
san fransisco concourse a
dallas terminal d
honolulu main terminal
vancover international
asia
singapore terminal 1
bangkok subiami
hong kong terminal 1
shanghai terminal 2
bejing terminal 3
tokyo haneda international
osaka terminal 1
tokyo narita terminal 2
jarkata terminal 3
denpesar
africa
johenesburg
europe
london terminal 3
south america
santaigo
new zelland
auckland
christchurch
welington
pacfiic
nadi
former destinations
paris terminal 2
frankfurt terminal 2e
rome concourse g
mumbai
dubai terminal 3
boneus aries
narribi (qantas link)
burnie (qantas link)
fleet
airbus 330-200 18 configuration bussiness 1-2-1/2-2-2 economy 2-4-2
airbus 330-300 10 configuration bussiness 2-2-2 economy 2-4-2
airbus 380-800 12 configuration first 1-2-1 bussiness 2-2-2 preium economy 2-4-2 economy 3-4-3
boeing 737-800 75 bussiness 2-2 economy 3-3
boeing 747-400 1 bussiness 2-3-2 economy 3-4-3 premium economy 2-4-2
boeing 747-400er 6 same as above
boeing 787-9 8 bussiness economy preium economy
qantas link
airbus 320-200 2 economy 3-3
boeing 717-200 20 bussiness 2-2 (not an all aircraf) economy 2-3
dash 8-200 3 economy 2-2
dash 8-300 20 economy 2-2
dash 8-400 31 economy 2-2
fooker 100 17 economy 2-3
hope you enjoy these posts.
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