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Forward Thinking
Qantas has been pursuing innovation in technology, ight operations
and product and service for 90 years. Forward thinking has always
been, and always will be, part of our culture. This timeline highlights
our major achievements during that period – many of them ‘rsts’ in
THE QANTAS GROUP 4
Invented Business
Class travel
1979
Qantas employee
Jack Grant
invented the
inatable aircraft
escape slide-raft
1965
World’s longest
ight undertaken
by a commercial
jet aircraft:
London-Sydney
non-stop with
a B747-400
1989
Pioneeredying
operations over
the Silk Road route,
saving 30 minutes’
ying time, after six
years’ planning with
the Civil Aviation
Authority of China
and Airservices
Australia
2001
First airline to offer
round-the-world
services via both
hemispheres
1958
Founded in
Queensland on
16 November
1920
2002
First airline to
introduce Rockwell
Collins Multi Scan
radar on B747-
400ERs to detect
the ice content of
storms and deliver
smootherying
1995
Leading role in the
use of Future Air
Navigation system
to optimise routing
and save fuel
1974
World record for
largest passenger
load, evacuating
674 passengers
with 23 crew via
B747 after Cyclone
Tracy devastated
Darwin
1959
First airline outside
the United States
toy Boeing 707
jets and to take
passengers by jet
across the Pacic
1943-45
Flew the world’s
longest route of
28 hours from
Perth to Colombo
(Sri Lanka) using
Catalina Flying
Boats, undertaken
in almost total
radio silence to
avoid Japanese
attack: 271 safe
crossings, 858
passengers, nearly
a million miles