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n. The national airline of Australia, founded in 1920.

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Qantas Airways Limited ( ; ) is the flag carrier airline of Australia and its largest airline by fleet size, international flights and international destinations. It is the third oldest airline in the world, after KLM and Avianca having been founded in November 1920; it began international passenger flights in May 1935. The Qantas name comes from "QANTAS", an acronym for its original name, " Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services", and it is nicknamed "The Flying Kangaroo". Qantas is a founding member of the Oneworld airline alliance.

The airline is based in the Sydney suburb of Mascot with its main hub at Sydney Airport. Qantas had a 65% share of the Australian domestic market and carried 14.9% of all passengers travelling in and out of Australia. Various subsidiary airlines operate to regional centres and on some trunk routes within Australia under the QantasLink banner. Its subsidiary Jetconnect provides services between Australia and New Zealand, flying under the Qantas brand. Qantas also owns Jetstar Airways, 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.

Qantas (genus)

Qantas is a genus of trematosauroid temnospondyl from the Early Triassic. Fossils have been found from the Kamennyi Yar Formation in Borsky District, Samara Oblast. The type species Qantas samarensis was named in 2012 and placed in the family Benthosuchidae, as it was viewed as a close relative of Benthosuchus. The subfamily Qantasinae was established to include Qantas, and possibly the genus Tirraturhinus. Qantas is named after the Australian airline Qantas, which supported the original study of the fossils.

Qantas (disambiguation)

Qantas is the flag carrier airline of Australia.

Qantas may also refer to:

  • Qantas (genus), genus of trematosauroid temnospondyl from the Early Triassic
  • Qantas Credit Union, Australian credit union
  • Qantas Defence Services, defense service company formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Qantas Airways, now part of Northrop Grumman
  • Qantas Media Award, short name for the New Zealand Newspaper Publishers' Association awards
  • Qantas Television Awards, New Zealand film and television awards

Usage examples of "qantas".

In Brisbane they transferred airports to catch the 11: 15 Qantas flight to Hong Kong.

Lloyd drove, and Gayle sat in the passenger seat with the gun aimed at mother and son, blinded with Qantas eyeshades.