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  • QANTAS AND AUSTRALIA POST CENTENARY FLIGHT TAKES OFF

    One hundred years after the first customer and bag of letters winged its way across the Queensland outback, Qantas and Australia Post will today follow the flightpath to recreate the historic airmail and passenger service from 1922. To mark the historic occasion, family members of Qantas founders, top tier frequent flyers and guests with a […]

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  • QANTAS CUSTOMERS PACK THEIR BAGS FOR HOLIDAYS IN FIJI

    Qantas is saying ‘Bula’ to Fiji for the first time in nearly twenty years, with a new direct flight from Sydney taking off today in time for the April school holidays. The direct service will operate four times a week to Nadi – the country’s main tourism gateway – with a Boeing 737 aircraft, meeting […]

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  • QANTAS STARTS HISTORY-MAKING FLIGHT DIRECT TO LONDON

    Qantas’ first Perth to London flight has taken off, marking the start of the only direct air link between Australia and Europe – and the fastest way of traveling between the two continents. The history-making QF9, carrying more than 200 passengers and 16 crew, pushed back just before 7pm on Saturday evening and will land […]

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  • QANTAS UNVEILS SPECIAL INDIGENOUS AIRCRAFT LIVERY

    Qantas has today unveiled a special livery honouring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians on its latest Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. The new livery features the work of the late Northern Territory artist and senior Anmatyerre woman, Emily Kame Kngwarreye*. It is based on her 1991 painting, Yam Dreaming and has been adapted for the aircraft […]

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  • Qantas announces special Indigenous aircraft livery

    Qantas will honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians with a special livery on its newest Dreamliner to enter the fleet. This will be the fifth design in Qantas’ flying art series, which started more than 20 years ago, and will be unveiled when the Boeing 787-9 is completed next month. It will be the […]

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