Qantas created the budget Jetstar in 2001 to compete. With the entry of new budget airline Virgin Blue (now Virgin Australia) into the domestic market in 2000, Qantas' market share fell. In 1998, Qantas co-founded the Oneworld alliance with American Airlines, British Airways, Canadian Airlines and Cathay Pacific, with other airlines joining subsequently. Under legislation passed to allow the privatisation, Qantas must be at least 51% owned by Australian shareholders. Qantas was gradually privatised between 19. The airline started to be rebranded to Qantas in the following year. On 14В SeptemberВ 1992 ( ), Qantas merged with nationally owned domestic airline Australian Airlines (renamed from Trans-Australia Airlines in 1986). In June 1959 Qantas entered the jet age when the first Boeing 707вЂ“138 was delivered. In 1957 a head office, Qantas House, opened in Sydney. Services to Hong Kong began around the same time. Shortly after nationalisation, QEA began its first services outside the British Empire, to Tokyo. After nationalisation, Qantas' remaining domestic network, in Queensland, was transferred to the also nationally owned Trans-Australia Airlines, leaving Qantas with a purely international network. In 1947, QEA was nationalised by the Australian government led by Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley. Qantas' kangaroo logo was first used on the 'Kangaroo Route', begun in 1944, from Sydney to Karachi, where BOAC crews took over for the rest of the journey to the UK. This linked up with the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC, the successor airline to Imperial Airways) service to London. ДЇlying boat services were resumed in 1943, with flights between the Swan River at Crawley in Perth, Western Australia and Koggala Lake in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). When World War II began, enemy action and accidents destroyed half of the fleet of ten, and most of the fleet was taken over by the Australian government for war service. QEA flew internationally from May 1935, when the service from Darwin was extended to Singapore (Imperial Airways operated the rest of the service through to London). The new airline commenced operations in December 1934, flying between Brisbane and Darwin. In 1934, QANTAS and Britain's Imperial Airways (a forerunner of British Airways) formed a new company, Qantas Empire Airways Limited (QEA). It moved its headquarters to Longreach, Queensland in 1921 and Brisbane, Queensland in 1930. The airline's first aircraft was an Avro 504K. 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. Qantas Empire Airways Short Empire flying boats at Rose Bay in Sydney Harbour ( c. 9.3 2011 industrial unrest and grounding of fleet.6.3.2 Wireless entertainment systems and Wi-Fi.6.3.1 Audio-video entertainment systems.2.4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders initiatives.Qantas also owns Jetstar, a low-cost airline that operates both international services from Australia and domestic services within Australia and New Zealand and holds stakes in a number of other Jetstar-branded airlines. Various subsidiary airlines operate to regional centres and on some trunk routes within Australia under the QantasLink banner. As of MarchВ 2014, Qantas had a 65 per cent share of the Australian domestic market and carried 14.9 per cent of all passengers travelling in and out of Australia. The airline is based in the Sydney suburb of Mascot, adjacent to its main hub at Sydney Airport. Qantas is a founding member of the Oneworld airline alliance. Qantas is an acronym of the airline's original name, Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services, as it originally served Queensland and the Northern Territory, and is popularly nicknamed 'The Flying Kangaroo'.

It is the world's third-oldest airline still in operation, having been founded in November 1920 it began international passenger flights in May 1935. Qantas Airways Limited ( / Л€ k w Й’ n t Й™ s/ KWON-tЙ™s) is the flag carrier of Australia and its largest airline by fleet size, international flights and international destinations.

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