Naked News

. See article Qantas Club. Among the imitators on the internet:. Since that time, new fleet have been given names from a specific theme:. The initial success of the show's concept spawned several imitators, mostly on the websites, but also including "The Daily Flash", a news program on Playboy TV. This aircraft was named Iris, by the Wife of the Governor General of the time. Past male anchors are:. Naming of Qantas' fleet has occured since the arrival of the first DH50.

The current male anchors are:. 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. Past female anchors are:. In the meantime, Qantas will use its A330 on international routes to Asia. The current female anchors are:. Delivery of the 787 will start in 2008, with the 787-900 coming in 2011. The female announcers have been featured in almost every media including television (CBS Sunday Morning, The Today Show, The View, Sally Jesse Raphaël, and numerous appearances on Entertainment Tonight and ET Insider) newspapers and magazines, (TV Guide, Playboy) and as guests on multiple radio shows including Howard Stern. Qantas will use the Boeing 787 to cut travel time to Asia to less than 10 hours.

Since the show's inception in 1999, there has been much turnover among the newscasters, and many guest anchors. This annoucement came after a long battle between Boeing and Airbus to meet the airline's needs for fleet renewal and future routes. The show features occasional on-the-street interviews by topless newscasters, which are made possible by Ontario's Topfree equality laws. On December 14, 2005, Qantas announced an order for 65 Boeing 787s with purchase rights on 50 more, with some going to JetStar. As such, most of the show's crew comes from the Toronto area. The interior design for the A380 aircraft is expected to feature new seat design, special lounge areas, AVOD, internet capability, and larger entertainment screens. Most of the show's announcers have been recruited through classified ads in alternative newspapers in Toronto. 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).

It was said that events like the 2005 Indian Ocean Earthquake were reported in the nude, while news of the London bombings as well as all follow-up reports and interviews done in the following days, were done fully clothed both in studio and in London. 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). This too has proven to be controversial as observers have complained that stories that warranted "fully-clothed" coverage were, in fact, Western or "Eurocentric" tragedies, while disasters happening elsewhere in the world were deemed "less important." In actuality, the producers of Naked News have instituted a basic rule in this area: No disrobing during any news coverage of a major tragedy anywhere in the world. The aircraft will be operated in a three class, 501 seat configuration on international services. The anchors have all since continued the tradition of reading tragic events fully clothed. 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. She did not undress when she read the news of the death of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, nor for the September 11, 2001 program (which was not aired). Qantas has placed an order for 12 Airbus A380-800, with options for 10 more.

Sinclair herself has questioned the appropriateness of disrobing while reading of tragic events. The QantasLink fleet consists of the following aircraft (at October 2005):. Critics charge that the nudity is little more than a gimmick that trivializes important news events, while proponents argue that such gimmicks exist on most television news already; nudity is just a particularly successful one. The Qantas fleet consists of the following aircraft (at December 2005):. Naked News has generated some controversy among the media, and even within its own staff. See full article: Qantas destinations. Victoria Sinclair, the first NN announcer and one of only two with journalism experience, has also received some praise for her newsreading ability. [3].

Naked News has earned some praise from established journalists for its coverage of international news items not often covered in mainstream news media. No passengers were injured in the incident. The show is or has been available on pay-per-view or by subscription in various markets in the U.S., Australia, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and even France (dubbed into French). United released a statement saying its flight 840 from Melbourne to Los Angeles "reported a wingtip touch with a Qantas aircraft as it taxied". Its offshoot Naked News TV aired as a late-night television series on the Toronto television station Citytv, and (until February 2005) on British satellite channel Get Lucky TV. 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. Although it was originally targeted towards female viewers (at one point said to be 30% of the website's audience), the male show now openly promotes itself as news from a gay perspective. The aircraft was only 15 months old at the time of the incident.

It does not however enjoy the same popularity and fame, and there are currently more female than male anchors. Subsequent investigation found no sign of smoke or fire, and it is believed that the cargo fire sensors were faulty. A male version of the show was created in 2001 to parallel the female version. 9 passengers were injured and hospitalised. By 2002, only one news segment could be viewed freely, and by 2004, no free content remained on the website. The Osaka Control Tower reported seeing smoke on landing, so an emergency evacuation was declared as a precaution and emergency slides were deployed. Part of the large amounts of web traffic in the site's early days was because the entire newscast could be viewed for free, though subscribers got access to a higher bandwidth feed and other extras. The aircraft made an emergency landing at Kansai Airport in Osaka, Japan after an indication of smoke in the cargo hold.

This number did not refer to the number of actual subscribers of the site, which was believed to be vastly lower. On 21 August 2005, an incident occurred involving Qantas Airbus A330-300 VH-QPE with 178 passengers and 13 crew aboard. During the height of its popularity, the website was promoted as receiving over 6 million hits per month. It also returned to service after repairs. The website was popularized entirely by word of mouth, and quickly became an internet meme. The following year 747-300 VH-EBW was damaged when its landing gear collapsed while taxiing at Rome. Naked News was conceived in 1998 and debuted in 1999 as a web-based news service and featuring an all-female cast. [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.

. [1] There were no fatalities; however, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau criticised numerous inadequacies in Qantas' operational and training processes. Regardless of the gender of the anchor, the male demographic is particularly high for the show. 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. Naked News TV is its offshoot pay-per-view or subscription service. Other fatal accidents occurred in 1927, 1934, 1942, 1943 (×2), and 1944. The male and female anchors read the news fully nude or strip as they present their news segments. 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.

Naked News, billing itself as "the program with nothing to hide", is a subscription website featuring a real television newscast prepared in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Prior to the jet era, Qantas had fatal crashes. Radio Tango - Oslo, Norway radio station once featured stripping female weather readers on their website. However, the company's official line is that it has never lost a "jet" aircraft. Comedie - This program on a French cable TV network ran a series promos featuring males and females casually undressing as they read jokes. It is often claimed, most notably in the 1988 movie Rain Man, that Qantas has never had a fatal crash. www.strip-news.de, a now-defunct German language webcast with both male and female announcers. 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.

Robert Milan. 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. Warren Michaels. Also in mid-2005 Qantas annouced it would increase services to Shanghai and Johannesburg. Brock Stern. In mid-2005 Qantas announced it would recommence services to Beijing, Seoul, Vancouver and San Francisco. Brendan Tanner. The first of the 787s are scheduled to be delivered to Jetstar in August 2008.

Joshua Holt - Recently announced he was gay in the pages of The Advocate magazine. Jetstar, Qantas' low-cost subsidiary, will also operate 10 of the new aircraft on international routes. Cole McQuade. The aircraft will allow Qantas to replace their current 767-300 fleet, increase capacity and establish new routes. Derek Shaw. The 787 was chosen after a very competitive selection process in which it competed directly with the Airbus A350. Malcolm Matisse. 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).

Jack Lange. In 2005, the first visit of an Airbus A380 to Australia coincided with Qantas's 85th birthday. Jeremy Chase. 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. Raoul Santos. Commentators believe the sale, and resultant greater Australian ownership, will free up hurdles for Qantas to expand into Asia. Lucas Tyler - The first male anchor of the show, now also producer and director, said to bear a strong resemblance to NBC newsman Matt Lauer. By law, Qantas must be at least 51% Australian-owned, and the British Airways holding had brought foreign ownership to the maximum permissible level.

Sarah Winters. British Airways' original 25% share had been diluted to 18.5% by the issue of more shares. Kelli Graham. In September 2004, British Airways disposed of its share in Qantas, expected to amount to A$1.1bn. Kaye Grant. In 1993, British Airways bought a 25 % share in Qantas for A$665m. Gretchen Frazier. In 2003, Qantas attempted and failed to obtain regulatory approval to purchase a larger (but still minority) stake in Air New Zealand.

Allyson Jones. It now wholy owns and operates JetConnect which operates NZ domestic services under the Qantas brand. Erin Sherwood. 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. Devon Calwell - At age 19, she is the youngest cast member. 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. She is unrelated to the Italian model of the same name. 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.

Carmen Russo - At age 42, she is the oldest cast member. 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. Holly Weston - She continued on the show throughout her pregnancy. 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. Brooke Roberts. 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. Diane Foster. After September 2001 and the collapse of Ansett Airlines, Qantas held a near-monopoly on the Australian domestic air travel market.

Erica Stevens. 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. Samantha Page. Qantas has a reputation for being an aggressive competitor in the Australian aviation market. Ashley Jenning. It also flies many international routes to and from Australia. Yukiko Kimura. 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.

Cameron Shore. The airline ceased operations in 1996. Gia Gomez. Several Boeing 747SP and 767 aircraft were transferred from Qantas service. Christine Kerr. In 1990, Qantas established Australia Asia Airlines to operate services to Taiwan. Michelle Pantoliano - Former radio & TV broadcaster from New York City. Qantas was privatised in 1995 by Prime Minister Keating's labor government.

Lily Kwan. Many of these routes were dropped in the 1970s following the airline slump after wide-body aircraft were introduced. Sandrine Renard. 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. Roxanne West. The network was expanded across the Pacific in 1954 when Qantas took over the operations of British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines (BCPA). "Athena the Greek". In 1948, the airline took delivery of Lockheed L.049 Constellations.

Athena King - a.k.a. Immediately after World War II, Qantas began operating Avro Lancastrian aircraft between Sydney and London in cooperation with British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). April Torres. Subsequent conservative governments maintained this arrangement. 2002. In 1967, the name was changed to Qantas Airways Limited. 2001, and returned in Nov. It remained an unlisted public company with the government holding 100 % of the shares.

Sinclair left the show in Sept. 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. Victoria Sinclair - The first NN reporter, she originally performed solo before additional news anchors were added. The flights operated in complete radio silence and took more than twenty-four hours. QEA operated a non-stop flying boat service between Perth, Western Australia and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1943-44. 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.

The Sydney to Southampton service took nine days, with passengers staying in hotels overnight. In 1938, this operation was replaced by a flying boat service using Shorts S.23 Empire Flying Boats. Imperial Airways operated the rest of the service through to London. Qantas Empire Airways commenced services between Brisbane and Singapore using deHavilland DH-86 Commonwealth Airliners.

Each partner held 49 %, with two per cent in the hands of an independent arbitrator. In 1934, QANTAS Limited and Britain's Imperial Airways (the forerunner of British Airways) formed a new company, Qantas Empire Airways Limited. It operated air mail services subsidized by the Australian government, linking railheads in western Queensland. Qantas was founded in Queensland on 16 November 1920 as Queensland and Northern Territorial Aerial Services Limited.

. Qantas was formerly an acronym for the "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services." The company is traded on the Australian Stock Exchange as "QAN.". 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.