Some interesting facts about QANTAS!!

● Qantas Airways is the largest airline of Australia and the third oldest airline in the world, after KLM and Avianca.

● In 1974, Qantas established a world record by evacuating 673 passengers in one of its flight from Darwin after the city was hit by Cyclone Tracy.

● Qantas Boeing 747-438 made the first record-breaking non-stop flight from London to Sydney on March 24, 1989 and became the first commercial airline ever to cover more than 17,000 kilometres.

● Qantas was founded by two World War I veterans, William Hudson Fysh and Paul McGuiness and Fergus McMaster who previously worked with the Australian Flying Corps on 16 November, 1920 with headquarters in Winton, Queensland.

● Qantas Airways co-founded the one world alliance with Cathay Pacific, American Airlines, Canadian Airlines and British Airways in 1998.

● Qantas is also the main sponsor of Australian national Rugby Union team, Australia’s national association football team, and Formula One Australian Grand Prix.

● Even in economy class of Qantas there's a fully stocked self-service snack bar on long-haul flights, in case you're hungry between meal services.

● Qantas made it's international debut on the Darwin - Singapore route in May 1935 on a De Havilland 86. The trip took almost 2 days with a stopover in Rambang, Indonesia.

● On 29 July 1959 the first Boeing 707 of Qantas took of from Sydney to San Francisco with a stop in Nadi, the capital of Fiji from where it would continued to Honolulu in Hawaii before making it to California.

● Qantas holds the distinction of being the only airline that Dustin Hoffman’s character in the 1988 movie “Rain Man” would fly because it had “never crashed.” The airline suffered fatal crashes of small aircraft prior to 1951, but has had no fatalities in the 70 years since