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" In a Qantas inflight radio program named " Reeling in the Years ", Copeland said an ongoing argument between himself and Sting over what drum machine to use in the sessions was " the straw that broke the camel's back ", and led to the group's unraveling.
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Qantas and radio
Adjacent to the college is the Longreach School of Distance Education, which provides lessons to remote students, formerly by UHF radio but now using telephone lines. The world's second oldest airline, Qantas, commenced operating in Longreach-from this hangar-now part of the Qantas Founders Museum.
Spencer previousally hosted the " Smile High Club " radio show programme on Qantas Airlines radio channel, Q.
In 1999, reporters Richard Ackland, Deborah Richards and Ann Connelly from the public broadcaster's Media Watch TV program revealed that 2UE talk radio hosts John Laws and Alan Jones had been paid to give favourable comment to companies including Qantas, Optus, Foxtel, Mirvac and major Australian banks, without disclosing this arrangement to listeners.
Goldman has also worked on Australian television and radio promoting companies such as Qantas, Westpac, Amart All Sports, Zumba and Speed Channel on Foxtel.
* For a number of years, Morrison has been the presenter of the in-flight jazz radio station for Qantas Airways.
He also regularly hosts on radio Qantas ' in-flight country music channel.
Qantas and program
Rival retailer Woolworths launched its Everyday Rewards fuel discount card nationally in 2009 and by August 2010 had 5. 1 million cardholders, with 2. 7 million linked to the Qantas frequent flyer program.
Many offer points collection with the Qantas frequent flyer program or conversion to points for Virgin Australia's Velocity Rewards program.
Qantas is deeply involved in the airline's operations to this day ; Air Vanuatu uses Qantas ' Frequent Flyer program, Qantas codeshares on Air Vanuatu's flights from Australia, and provides maintenance and pilot training services as well.
* Everyday Rewards – Loyalty program offering customers fuel saving offers, Qantas Frequent Flyer points, and personalised shopping offers.
During the year, the ABC TV current affairs program Media Watch revealed that Laws and rival talk-back host Alan Jones ( then also at 2UE ) had been paid to give favourable comments by companies including Qantas, Optus, Foxtel, Mirvac, Telstra and major Australian banks, without disclosing this arrangement to listeners.
Rosie also hosts Billboard on Qantas ' Q Radio program Billboard, this can be heard while flying on Qantas.
A real highlight of Elliot Goblet's career was the hosting of the Qantas comedy audio program on all Qantas flights world wide.
Qantas and named
* Australia's largest airline Qantas named its fifth Airbus A380 aircraft ( registration VH-OQE ) after Lawrence Hargrave.
Qantas named its sixth Airbus A380 ( VH-OQF ) after Kingsford Smith.
Qantas has named an Airbus A380 after the aviator, with his name featured on the aircraft.
In 2002, Qantas returned to the town, with a Boeing 747-238B aircraft, registered VH-EBQ and named City of Bunbury, flown into the town for static display at the Qantas Founders Outback Museum, which is also sited at the airport.
In September 2009, a Qantas 737-800, the first International configuration plane of its type and Qantas's 75th 737 was named after Batten.
The site was named best news website at the 2007 and 2008 Qantas Media Awards, won the " best re-designed website " category at the 2007 New Zealand NetGuide Awards, and was one of seven newspaper sites named an Official Honoree in the 2007 Webby Awards.
The first Airbus A380 ( VH-OQA ) delivered to Australian airline Qantas was named in her honour.
It was described by Patricia Vickers-Rich and her husband Tom Rich in 1999 after a find near Inverloch, and named after Qantas, the Australian airline.
Qantas has named one of their Airbus A380s after Ansett in recognition of his contribution to the aviation industry.
Qantas and ",
The first Qantas A380, VH-OQA " Nancy Bird Walton ", made a historic landing at the airport on 27 September 2008, enthralling several thousand spectators who had gathered to catch a glimpse of the giant aircraft.
At a Senate Estimates Hearing in Canberra, Heffernan called the Irish-born head of Qantas, Alan Joyce, an " an old Irish bomb maker ", saying " Mr Joyce if the power was yours, you know from being an old Irish bomb maker, if you had the choice, what would be the ideal pilot training?
Her name on the A380 was originally written " Nancy Bird-Walton ", but Qantas respected her preference for the hyphenation that her late husband used (" Nancy-Bird "), and the hyphen was added before the aircraft's naming ceremony.
In 2000, at the age of 10, she travelled the world as a member of the Australian Girls Choir, and took part in a re-recording of Peter Allen's " I Still Call Australia Home ", for a Qantas commercial.
Qantas and ongoing
On 29 October 2011, Qantas Airways declared a lockout of all domestic employees in the face of ongoing union industrial action.
Qantas and between
The term " code sharing " or " codeshare " was coined in 1989 by Qantas and American Airlines, and in 1990 the two firms provided their first codeshare flights between an array of Australian cities and U. S. domestic cities.
The airport will become a secondary hub for Qantas in April 2013, after a major partnership was formed between Emirates and Qantas.
Trans Australia Airlines or TAA, ( renamed Australian Airlines in 1986 ) was one of the two major Australian domestic airlines between its inception in 1946 and its sale to Qantas in May 1996.
Qantas revived the Australian Airlines brand between 2002 and 2006 to serve the low-cost leisure market of visitors to and from Australia but using a full-service model.
In 1959, Qantas began the first jet service to Honolulu as a stop on its flights between Australia and California.
Jetstar has taken over the old Ansett New Zealand / Qantas / Pacific Blue domestic terminal with two check-in counters between the Jetstar and Air New Zealand check-in areas.
In that year, government tenders on both sides of the world invited applications to run new passenger and mail services between the ends of Empire, and Qantas and IAL were successful with a joint bid.
When Italy entered the war in June 1940, the Mediterranean was closed to allied planes and BOAC and Qantas operated the Horseshoe Route between Durban and Sydney using Short Empire flying boats.
The new combined terminal was opened that same year by then Minister for Civil Aviation, Senator Shane Paldridge ; it was located in an area positioned between Terminals 2 and 3 and is currently used as the crew base for both Qantas and Skywest, and offices for airlines and support firms.
In March 2012 another Asian Jetstar branded airline was announced, Jetstar Hong Kong, a strategic partnership between the Qantas Group and China Eastern Airlines, which is expected to commence operations in 2013.
* Qantas Empire Airways begins the longest scheduled nonstop airline service in history, a 28-hour flight between Perth, Australia, and Ceylon using PBY Catalina flying boats which becomes known as the " Double Sunrise Route " because passengers and crew see two sunrises during the journey.
* November 2 – Qantas begins its first scheduled flights, between Charleville, Queensland and Cloncurry, Queensland.
In 1922, Qantas established an airmail service between Charleville and Cloncurry.
* Qantas and QantasLink ' CityFlyer ' service offers flights between major Australian capital cities on weekdays, with complimentary alcoholic afternoon drinks, newspapers, flexible fares and more frequent schedules.
Impulse used the aircraft to pioneer non-stop services between Newcastle and Melbourne but was soon met with competition from Qantas who utilised the much larger BAe 146 on the route.
The new low cost entrants injected competition into the long-lived duopoly between Qantas and Ansett which arguably contributed to the downfall of the latter.
The Southern Concourse Terminal also includes The Qantas Club, The Qantas Business Class Lounge and The Qantas Chairman's Lounge ( all co-located between Gates 11 and 12 ).
There was a connection at Sydney with the Qantas / BOAC route to Great Britain which meant that there was, for the first time, a regular through air service between New Zealand and Britain.
* 29 May – An attempted hijacking of Qantas Flight 1737 between Melbourne and Launceston is thwarted when a flight attendant and passengers subdue and disarm the culprit.
Jetstar Asia was launched in 2004 as a partnership between Qantas, holding a 49 % stake in the airline, Singaporean businessmen Tony Chew ( 22 %) and FF Wong ( 10 %) and the Singapore government's investment company, Temasek Holdings ( Private ) Limited ( 19 %).
The Kangaroo Route traditionally refers to air routes flown by Qantas between the countries of Australia and the United Kingdom, via the Eastern Hemisphere.
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