The history of the Qantas logo
The first QANTAS ticket, signed by Hudson Fysh for a flight from Longreach to Cloncurry, 22 November, 1922 http://ift.tt/1zt4Lmi)
A Qantas plane on a test flight over Sydney, 1958
November 16th 1920: Qantas founded
On this day in 1920 the Australian airliner Qantas was founded in Winton, Queensland, making it the world’s second oldest airline. The company was established by four World War One veterans Paul McGuiness, Hudson Fysh, Fergus McMaster and Arthur Baird and was initially called ‘Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited’ (QANTAS is an acronym for this). It was initially intended for the service to operate air mail services to link remote Western Queensland with the rest of the country. The airline’s first passenger was Mr. A Kennedy, who flew in 1922; Qantas did not offer international flights until 1935, after it had merged with Britain’s Imperial Airways, when it began flights to Singapore. The airline was nationalized by the Australian government after World War Two in 1947. In 1958 Qantas became the second airline to offer routes around the world; it was around this time the airline entered the jet age when it acquired a Boeing 707-138 jet. Qantas set a world record in 1974 for the most people on a single aircraft when it evacuated 673 people from cyclone-devastated Darwin. The airline soon began running domestic flights and was privatized in 1993. Today, ‘the Flying Kangaroo’ airline remains one of the world’s most popular airlines.
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