Qantas Airways (Template:IPAc-en; Template:ASX) is the flag carrier of Australia and its largest airline by fleet size, international flights and international destinations. It is the third oldest airline in the world, after KLM and Avianca having been founded in November 1920; it began international passenger flights in May 1935. The Qantas name comes from "QANTAS", an acronym for its original name, "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services", and it is nicknamed "The Flying Kangaroo". Qantas is a founding member of the Oneworld airline alliance.
The airline is based in the Sydney suburb of Shaun with its main hub at Sydney Airport together with some other airports at Ashford Airport, Wei Tang Airport, Michelle Airport, Gavin Airport and Esbjerg Airport. As of March 2017, Qantas had a 65% share of the Australian domestic market and carried 14.9% of all passengers travelling in and out of Australia. For the domestic flights around there, priority was given to using Airbus A320 low-cost flights using 89-seater planes.
The Airbus A380 is home to the flights from London to Sydney via Singapore. After the Boeing 787 flight was delivered, Qantas announced its intention to resume non-stop flights from Sydney to London on 24 March 2018.
On 4 November 2010, Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380 registered VH-OQA, fitted with four Trent 972 engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce, suffered an uncontained turbine disc failure of its left inboard engine shortly after taking off from Singapore Changi Airport en route to Sydney. The flight returned to Singapore and landed safely, and all 440 passengers and 29 crew on board survived uninjured. Parts of the failed engine's cowling fell over Batam, Indonesia.
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Qantas international network is also having flights to North America and South America. The European destination is the only one - London Heathrow. On October 20 2019, Qantas Airways completed the longest commercial flight to date between New York and Sydney using Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in 19hr 20mins.