Qantas

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. Since that time, new fleet have been given names from a specific theme:.
. This aircraft was named Iris, by the Wife of the Governor General of the time. The theme is currently a remixed version of the one used between 1991 and 1995 and is composed by Tony Gibber. Naming of Qantas' fleet has occured since the arrival of the first DH50. This was replaced in 1986 with "The Wizard", a composition by Paul Hardcastle.

Although Qantas chose neither the Boeing 777 or Airbus 340, it is rumored that Qantas is still looking into buying planes from one of these two manufacturers for the LHR-SYD/SYD-LHR non-stop route. In 1981 an original song 'Yellow Pearl' by Phil Lynott was commissioned as the new theme music. In the meantime, Qantas will use its A330 on international routes to Asia. was used as the show's theme tune for most of the 1970s, and also in a remixed version between 1998 and 2003, although ironically the band never performed on the show. Delivery of the 787 will start in 2008, with the 787-900 coming in 2011. S. Qantas will use the Boeing 787 to cut travel time to Asia to less than 10 hours. C.

This annoucement came after a long battle between Boeing and Airbus to meet the airline's needs for fleet renewal and future routes. A version of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" by C. On December 14, 2005, Qantas announced an order for 65 Boeing 787s with purchase rights on 50 more, with some going to JetStar. Mainly this has been performers who disliked the mime format of the show, often as a more effective protest of this rather than just refusing to appear. The interior design for the A380 aircraft is expected to feature new seat design, special lounge areas, AVOD, internet capability, and larger entertainment screens. A number of performers have sent up the format in various ways. Qantas will also make aviation history by operating the longest 500-passenger service in the world, flying between Melbourne and Los Angeles (12,749 km). In addition, the creator of the show, Johnnie Stewart, died on April 29, 2005.

Qantas intends to place the first 4 aircraft on trans-Pacific routes from Melbourne and Sydney to Los Angeles and later aircraft on services between Australia and London via Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Singapore (ref: Airliner World, March 2005). Although the original four presenters are still alive, five presenters of the show have passed away — Stuart Henry, Kenny Everett, occasional presenter Caron Keating, John Peel and Tommy Vance. The aircraft will be operated in a three class, 501 seat configuration on international services. An edited version of the UK show can be seen on BBC Prime, the weekend after UK transmission. It will be the second airline (after launch customer Singapore Airlines) to receive an A380 and will take delivery of its first aircraft in April 2007. It is being planned for a possible Fall 2006 launch. Qantas has placed an order for 12 Airbus A380-800, with options for 10 more. It is expected to be similar to the 1987 version, but it will also utilize the Billboard magazine music charts, most notably the Hot 100 chart.

The QantasLink fleet consists of the following aircraft (at October 2005):. On January 23, 2006, record producer Lou Pearlman made a deal to bring "Top of the Pops" back to the airwaves in the United States. The Qantas fleet consists of the following aircraft (at December 2005):. Viewer interest was gone and the show was taken off BBC America's schedule. See full article: Qantas destinations. BBC America then tinkered with the show by cutting a few minutes out of each show and moving it to a weekday time slot. [3]. The network would get the episodes one week after they were transmitted in the UK.

No passengers were injured in the incident. In 2002, BBC America presented the BBC version of Top of the Pops as part of their weekend schedule. United released a statement saying its flight 840 from Melbourne to Los Angeles "reported a wingtip touch with a Qantas aircraft as it taxied". The show was presented on late Friday nights and lasted almost a year. On 2 February 2006, a Qantas Boeing 767, carrying 155 passengers and 11 crew, and a United Airlines 747, carrying 99 passengers and 14 crew, were involved in a wing clipping incident while on the runway of Melbourne's Tullamarine International Airport. It was hosted by Nia Peeples and even showed performances from the BBC version of the programme. The aircraft was only 15 months old at the time of the incident. In 1987, the CBS television network decided to try an American version of the show.

Subsequent investigation found no sign of smoke or fire, and it is believed that the cargo fire sensors were faulty. Top of the Pops had short-lived fame in the United States. 9 passengers were injured and hospitalised. This is aimed at a younger audience as is part of the CBBC Saturday Morning lineup. The Osaka Control Tower reported seeing smoke on landing, so an emergency evacuation was declared as a precaution and emergency slides were deployed. A more recent spin-off is Top of the Pops Reloaded (previously Top of the Pops Saturday), showing on Saturday mornings on BBC One. The aircraft made an emergency landing at Kansai Airport in Osaka, Japan after an indication of smoke in the cargo hold. It has been shown on BBC2 since September 1994, although the network's new controller Roly Keating announced in the summer of 2004 that it was being "rested" (repeats, however, continue on the digital channel UKTV G2).

On 21 August 2005, an incident occurred involving Qantas Airbus A330-300 VH-QPE with 178 passengers and 13 crew aboard. The BBC have also had a show called TOTP2 which shows archive footage from as early as the 1960s of musicians on earlier Top of the Pops shows. It also returned to service after repairs. It now averages around 1.5 million viewers. The following year 747-300 VH-EBW was damaged when its landing gear collapsed while taxiing at Rome. Since the move to Sundays, Cotton has continued to host with a different guest presenter each week, such as Rufus Hound or Richard Bacon. [2] Repairs to the nine-year-old aircraft were undertaken in China by TAECO at a cost in excess of A$100 million and it was suggested at the time that this expense was solely to avoid a hull-loss being recorded, a claim Qantas denied. The show was co-hosted by Reggie Yates and Fearne Cotton until 11th July 2005 every Friday night.

[1] There were no fatalities; however, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau criticised numerous inadequacies in Qantas' operational and training processes. It was not renewed due to his apparent lack of popularity with TV viewers. Qantas' record in the jet era was spotless until Boeing 747-400 VH-OJH over-ran the runway by 220 metres while landing in a rainstorm at Bangkok in 1999. The new show was hosted by MTV presenter Tim Kash until his contract expired in August 2004. Other fatal accidents occurred in 1927, 1934, 1942, 1943 (×2), and 1944. In a break with the previous format, the show is to play more up-and-coming tracks ahead of any chart success, and also to feature interviews with artists. One was on 16 July 1951, when De Havilland Drover VH-EBQ crashed in New Guinea after an engine failure, killing all seven passengers and crew. In November 2003, the show was radically overhauled in what has been widely reported as a make-or-break attempt to revitalise the long-running series.

Prior to the jet era, Qantas had fatal crashes. While this resulted in some of the show's best performances — notably Kurt Cobain's singing on "Smells Like Teen Spirit" — it also exposed a number of poor live singers, and was dropped as a general rule. However, the company's official line is that it has never lost a "jet" aircraft. For a few years from 1991 the show adopted a live vocal to pre-recorded backing track policy. It is often claimed, most notably in the 1988 movie Rain Man, that Qantas has never had a fatal crash. Acts performing on the show have traditionally mimed to a pre-recorded track and this accounts for a number of performers who never appeared on the show due to a resistance to mime. There are also plans to increase services to India, by making the current three times weekly service to Mumbai (Bombay) into a daily return flight. In its heyday during the glam rock era of the early 1970s, the show featured the tightly choreographed dance troupe Pan's People (later succeeded by Legs & Co.), something which has been widely imitated on similar shows ever since.

On 30 November 2005 Qantas annouced that services to New York would go from 3 per week to 5 per week from 27 February 2006. The show has historically been closely associated with the BBC radio station Radio 1, usually being presented by DJs from the station (although from October 1991 to January 1994 no Radio 1 DJs presented the show, and the association has not been as close as it once was). Also in mid-2005 Qantas annouced it would increase services to Shanghai and Johannesburg. It celebrated its 2000th show in 2002. In mid-2005 Qantas announced it would recommence services to Beijing, Seoul, Vancouver and San Francisco. This chart show has seen many changes through the decades: in style, design, fashion and taste. The first of the 787s are scheduled to be delivered to Jetstar in August 2008. The first edition on BBC Two was broadcast on 17 July 2005 at 7pm.

Jetstar, Qantas' low-cost subsidiary, will also operate 10 of the new aircraft on international routes. However, it was insisted that the move was in fact so that the show would air immediately after the official announcement of the new top 40 chart on Radio 1, as it was thought that by the following Friday, the chart seemed out-of-date. The aircraft will allow Qantas to replace their current 767-300 fleet, increase capacity and establish new routes. This move has been widely reported as a final "sidelining" of the show, and perhaps a move towards cancelling it altogether. The 787 was chosen after a very competitive selection process in which it competed directly with the Airbus A350. By November 2004, viewing figures had plummeted to below three million, prompting announcement by the BBC that the show was going to move again to Sunday evenings on BBC Two, thus losing its prime-time slot on BBC One which it had maintained for forty years.[2]. On 14 December 2005, Qantas announced an order for 115 Boeing 787-8 and 787-9 aircraft (45 firm orders, 20 options and 50 purchase rights). It was traditionally shown on a Thursday night, but was moved to a Friday in 1996, a change which caused some controversy.

In 2005, the first visit of an Airbus A380 to Australia coincided with Qantas's 85th birthday. During its heyday in the 1970s, it attracted 15 million viewers each week [1]. Qantas is responsible for some of the most successful marketing campaigns in Australian history, with many advertising campaigns featuring renditions by children's choirs of Peter Allen's "I Still Call Australia Home," set to footage of breathtaking scenery. It was originally intended to have only a few programmes but has been going for over 40 years. Commentators believe the sale, and resultant greater Australian ownership, will free up hurdles for Qantas to expand into Asia. Over 2000 episodes have been shown over the years; and the act that has appeared in the most episodes is the British rock band, Status Quo. By law, Qantas must be at least 51% Australian-owned, and the British Airways holding had brought foreign ownership to the maximum permissible level. Savile rotated with three other presenters: Alan Freeman, Pete Murray and David Jacobs.

British Airways' original 25% share had been diluted to 18.5% by the issue of more shares. DJ Jimmy Savile presented the first show, which featured (in order) The Rolling Stones with "I Wanna Be Your Man'", Dusty Springfield with "I Only Want to be With You", the Dave Clark Five with "Glad All Over", The Hollies with "Stay", The Swinging Blue Jeans with "The Hippy Hippy Shake" and The Beatles with "I Want to Hold Your Hand", that week's number one. In September 2004, British Airways disposed of its share in Qantas, expected to amount to A$1.1bn. Top of the Pops began on New Year's Day 1964 in a studio set in a disused church in Manchester. In 1993, British Airways bought a 25 % share in Qantas for A$665m. . In 2003, Qantas attempted and failed to obtain regulatory approval to purchase a larger (but still minority) stake in Air New Zealand. Each programme consists of half an hour of performances of some of that week's best-selling popular music.

It now wholy owns and operates JetConnect which operates NZ domestic services under the Qantas brand. Top of the Pops is a long-running British music chart television programme shown each week on BBC Two and now licensed for local versions around the world. Qantas has attempted to expand into the New Zealand domestic air travel market, first with a shareholding in Air New Zealand and then by a franchise takeover of Ansett New Zealand. The New Jersey power pop band The Smithereens recorded a song entitled "Top of the Pops" on their album "Blow Up.". Qantas is already the second-largest airline operating out of Singapore Changi Airport, while Singapore Airlines is the second-largest operator of international flights into and out of Australia. Akira the Don's single, 'Living in the Future'. On 13 December 2004, the first flight of Jetstar Asia Airways took off from its Singapore hub to Hong Kong, marking Qantas' entry into the Asian cut-price market, and its intentions in battling key competitor Singapore Airlines on its home ground. The song "Formed a Band" by Art Brut includes in its lyrics, "We’re gonna write a song as universal as happy Birthday, that makes sure everybody knows that everything is going to be OK, we’re going to take that song and we’re going to play it 8 weeks in a row on Top of the Pops." In their song "Bad Weekend," the band also sings, "sometimes it's hard to stop when your heart is set on Top of the Pops, Top of the Pops." Art Brut Lyrics.

Prior to Jetstar, Qantas had also developed a full-service all economy international carrier focussed on the holiday and leisure market, which has taken on the formerly used Australian Airlines name. "Me Plus One" by Anne Lilia Berge Strand or more commonly Annie. Qantas hopes that this move will "crowd out" the cut-price segment of the market, allowing Qantas to remain the superdominant player in the Australian domestic aviation market and one of the few profitable full-service airlines in the world. Rat Trap by The Boomtown Rats. The introduction of Virgin Blue, a cut-price competitor, has eaten into this market share somewhat, and Qantas has responded by creating a new cut-price subsidiary airline Jetstar. A song entitled "Top of the Pops" appeared on the Kinks album, Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One. After September 2001 and the collapse of Ansett Airlines, Qantas held a near-monopoly on the Australian domestic air travel market. "C-30 C-60 C-90 GO!", originally by Bow Wow Wow and covered by Seattle, WA band Pretty Girls Make Graves.

Over the years, several domestic Australian airlines have gone out of business amid complaints of anti-competitive pricing by Qantas and exorbitant prices on new non-competed routes. The Scottish punk band The Rezillos lampooned the show as a vehicle for vapid commercialism and for paying little or no attention to talented, unknown bands, in their song "Top of the Pops." Ironically the band actually ended up performing the song on the programme (twice) when it entered the charts — it would appear the producers misunderstood the song's lyrics and thought it was an affectionate tribute. Qantas has a reputation for being an aggressive competitor in the Australian aviation market. Possibly because of this, his next appearance as presenter wasn't until 1982. It also flies many international routes to and from Australia. When John Peel first presented the programme in 1968 he forgot the name of Amen Corner who were appearing that week. Since the merger with Australian Airlines in 1993, Qantas has flown an extensive schedule between all Australian capital cities, as well as many regional cities and towns. When Elvis Costello performed "Radio Radio" on the show, he changed the lyrics to criticise Tony Blackburn who was the presenter that week.

The airline ceased operations in 1996. Because of the BBC's former policy of deleting old programmes, nearly all of the episodes from the first ten years of the programme's history have been lost, including all of The Beatles' appearances. Several Boeing 747SP and 767 aircraft were transferred from Qantas service. Super Furry Animals once got the whole audience to sit down during a live performance of theirs. In 1990, Qantas established Australia Asia Airlines to operate services to Taiwan. In 1980, the then fledgling heavy metal superstars Iron Maiden became the first band to play live on the show since The Who in 1972, when they refused to mime to their single "Running Free". Qantas was privatised in 1995 by Prime Minister Keating's labor government. It noticeably had Victoria Beckham promote her new song "This Groove", with a performance 7 times in the first 8 shows, including the (pre-recorded) Christmas special.

Many of these routes were dropped in the 1970s following the airline slump after wide-body aircraft were introduced. The show's relaunch with Andi Peters as producer was widely considered the point where Top Of The Pops was Jumping The Shark. By the 1960s, Qantas was operating round-the-world services from Australia to London via Asia and the Middle East and via the USA and Mexico. The most complaints the show recieved for a single episode was in 1994 when Manic Street Preachers performed their song "Faster" in a manner that was seen as intimidating and featured lead singer James Dean Bradfield wearing a balaclava such as would be worn by an IRA terrorist. The network was expanded across the Pacific in 1954 when Qantas took over the operations of British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines (BCPA). Cliff Richard has performed the most on Top Of The Pops, recording over 150 performances. In 1948, the airline took delivery of Lockheed L.049 Constellations. The shortest performance was Super Furry Animals with Do or Die clocking in at 95 seconds.

Immediately after World War II, Qantas began operating Avro Lancastrian aircraft between Sydney and London in cooperation with British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). As of November 2005, the longest performance was of Green Day's Jesus Of Suburbia lasting 9 minutes. Subsequent conservative governments maintained this arrangement. "I'm miming"!. In 1967, the name was changed to Qantas Airways Limited. The lyric he did not mime to was .. It remained an unlisted public company with the government holding 100 % of the shares. Fish, the face painted lead singer of early 1980s prog rockers Marillion, made sure that the cameras caught a close up of his firmly closed mouth during a particular section of their single Punch and Judy.

After World War II, QEA Limited was in dire financial straits and was taken over by the Australian labor government led by Prime Minister Ben Chifley. Singer Les Gray of Mud went on stage to perform with a ventriloquist dummy during the performance of Lonely this Christmas and had the dummy lip-synch to the voice-over in the middle of the song. The flights operated in complete radio silence and took more than twenty-four hours. This performance has been taken to heart by Nirvana fans, who affectionately refer to it as "Teen Gothic". QEA operated a non-stop flying boat service between Perth, Western Australia and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1943-44. For this performance Cobain was trusted to sing live vocals to a pre-recorded backing track: instead, he sang in a low, mournful wail; he was later to claim this was his attempt to sound like Morrissey. Most of the QEA fleet was taken over by the Australian government for war service between 1939 and 1945, and most of these aircraft were lost in action. In grunge band Nirvana's only performance on Top of the Pops, frontman Kurt Cobain "played" his guitar with his fingers inches away from the frets, drummer Dave Grohl danced around in his seat for most of the performance, and bassist Krist Novoselic waved his instrument around his head.

The Sydney to Southampton service took nine days, with passengers staying in hotels overnight. Faith No More lead singer Mike Patton also showed he was obviously miming a performance by sticking his tongue out of the side of his mouth during closeup shots. In 1938, this operation was replaced by a flying boat service using Shorts S.23 Empire Flying Boats. In a 2005 performance of "Lyla", Liam Gallagher made no secret of the fact that he was miming his lyrics by walking away from the microphone and chewing gum when he was supposed to be singing. Imperial Airways operated the rest of the service through to London. The performance of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" witnessed the unlikely scene of Paul Weller lip-syncing to Bono's vocals. Qantas Empire Airways commenced services between Brisbane and Singapore using deHavilland DH-86 Commonwealth Airliners. For the 1984 Christmas Day edition all of the performers from Band Aid had been booked to appear apart from Bono.

Each partner held 49 %, with two per cent in the hands of an independent arbitrator. The set ended with the band erupting in laughter at the Gallagher's impressions of each other. In 1934, QANTAS Limited and Britain's Imperial Airways (the forerunner of British Airways) formed a new company, Qantas Empire Airways Limited. It also mocked the habit people had in Oasis' early years of confusing the brothers, not being able to tell them apart. It operated air mail services subsidized by the Australian government, linking railheads in western Queensland. In 1995 Oasis played their single "Roll With It" featuring singer Liam Gallagher pretending to play guitar, while guitarist Noel Gallagher pretended to sing, just to show how fake the 'live' performance was. Qantas was founded in Queensland on 16 November 1920 as Queensland and Northern Territorial Aerial Services Limited. Despite this, to this day, many TV nostalgia shows and other sources still claim this was an error.

. This was a deliberate joke by the band and the production staff, but many people (including, apparently, host David Jensen) didn't realise this and thought it was a genuine mistake. Qantas was formerly an acronym for the "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services." The company is traded on the Australian Stock Exchange as "QAN.". While performing their 1982 hit "Jackie Wilson Said" the band Dexy's Midnight Runners were seen performing in front of a projection of the darts player Jocky Wilson. Qantas is the third oldest airline in the world after KLM, the national airline of the Netherlands, and Avianca from Colombia. "Qantas" (IATA: QF, ICAO: QFA, and Callsign: Qantas) is the name and callsign of the oldest and largest airline of Australia.

He is also qualified for flying the Boeing 747-400 as a First Officer - he commenced and completed his training with Qantas. Actor John Travolta personally owns and flies an ex-Qantas Boeing 707 painted in the Qantas livery of the 1960's. Its first international destination was to Singapore. British Airways used these designs on their tailfins as part of their 1997 "ethnic art" relaunch.

All three carry striking, colourful liveries, designed by Australian Aborigines. Qantas has three planes painted in Australian Aboriginal art liveries: Wunala Dreaming (Boeing 747-438ER VH-OEJ), Nalanji Dreaming (Boeing 747-338 VH-EBU) and Yananyi Dreaming (Boeing 737-838 VH-VXB). In 1979 Qantas was the only airline in the world to operate a fleet consisting entirely of Boeing 747's. Qantas Boeing 707s were nicknamed V jets from the latin vannus meaning fan.

The first Qantas Boeing 707 was delivered to the airline in Seattle on 26 June 1959. In 1928 a chartered Qantas aircraft conducted the inaugural flight of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, departing from Cloncurry. In the 1920s Qantas built a number of aircraft (De Havilland DH50s and a single DH9) under licence in its Longreach hangar. Cruising speed was 105 kilometres per hour (65 mph), carrying 1 pilot and 2 passengers.

The first aircraft owned by Qantas was Avro 504K G-AUBG, purchased for £1425. 2006/7 (Airbus A380) - First A380 will be named Nancy Bird Walton, remainder as yet are un-named however will be themed on Australian Aviation Pioneers. 2002 - Re-establishment of naming practice of fleet after Towns & Cities of Australia, celebrating Qantas' coverage of Australia. 1980s - Wildlife (Bellbird, Lorikeet and Kestrel).

1980s - Inspirational Names (Daring, Integrity, Resolute).  ???? (Flying Boats) - Capella, Carpentaria, Challenger, Champion, Calypso and Camilla. 1929 (DH61 Aircraft) - Grecian Theme (Apollo, Diana, Hermes and Athena). 34 Dash 8 (further 7 on order).

5 BAe 146. 5 Boeing 717-200 (further 4 on order). 35 Boeing 787s (on order). 24 Boeing 767-300ER (comprising 17 Boeing 767-338ER and 7 Boeing 767-336ER).

30 Boeing 747-400 (comprising 21 Boeing 747-438, 6 Boeing 747-438ER, 2 Boeing 747-4H6 and 1 Boeing 747-48E). 6 Boeing 747-338. 29 Boeing 737-838 (further 4 on order). 20 Boeing 737-400 (comprising 19 Boeing 737-476 and 1 Boeing 737-4L7).

10 Airbus A330-303. 4 Airbus A330-201.