John Heaton Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Yesterday Qantas - the famous Australian airline - was the 100th anniversary the birth of the name and airline Originally - Queensland and Northern Territory Airways - formed by 2 ex Australian WW1 flyers - was a Bush airline carrying a few passengers and Mail from Charleville to Normanton - via Longreach and Winton - and Mt Isa The headquarters were in Longreach - and now there is a wonderful museum at the old Hangar and I am pleased to say I was part of that story along with another of our oldies - Macca 2 Pics - the Captain Cook Lounge upstairs on the early 747s -(spent many a happy flight in there) and me - taking off from Cairns - in the freeware 787 Dreamliner - the latest in the fleet Qantas have done a mockup of the lounge for the birthday party and it will be part of the Longreach exhibit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Thank you for posting this John. Plesae just allow me a minor correction. QANTAS was founded as "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Great anniversary of an airline that provided the necessary connections in this big land. How I would have liked to travel in Captain Cook´s Lounge...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Heaton Posted November 19, 2020 Author Share Posted November 19, 2020 12 hours ago, wolfko said: Thank you for posting this John. Plesae just allow me a minor correction. QANTAS was founded as "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services". whhoops - correction accepted - especially as I for one - knew it all the time I'll blame it on old age - ( 15 years behind Qantas) - and I wrote it at 1 am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boetie Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 23 hours ago, John Heaton said: Yesterday Qantas - the famous Australian airline - was the 100th anniversary the birth of the name and airline Originally - Queensland and Northern Territory Airways - formed by 2 ex Australian WW1 flyers - was a Bush airline carrying a few passengers and Mail from Charleville to Normanton - via Longreach and Winton - and Mt Isa The headquarters were in Longreach - and now there is a wonderful museum at the old Hangar and I am pleased to say I was part of that story along with another of our oldies - Macca 2 Pics - the Captain Cook Lounge upstairs on the early 747s -(spent many a happy flight in there) and me - taking off from Cairns - in the freeware 787 Dreamliner - the latest in the fleet Qantas have done a mockup of the lounge for the birthday party and it will be part of the Longreach exhibit You should be asleep by 1am John says I at 1am. My alarm is set for 6am. Hopefully 5 hrs sleep with this Shiraz. Regards also to Macca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Lars Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 On 11/18/2020 at 3:23 PM, John Heaton said: This must be the best lounge ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Heaton Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 9 hours ago, Captain Lars said: This must be the best lounge ever. To My Way of travel --it was the best - unfortunately replaced in the late 702 by a business class section and 1st class was fitted with less seats and Premiere class seats - they folded down - almost a bed like leather -armchair The other major Airlines had variations of that lounge - with British Airways the second best similar to Qantas Pan American utilized it - set up as a domestic Dining room - where all meals were "silver" served - as in a restaurant I never flew T.W.A. 747 - mainly because the routes I flew on business were well served by the other 3 - eg. US West coast to UK. - but I did a couple of times in the 707 internal USA and the bar was at the back of the F.C.Cabin A small anecdote on this upper deck lounge - on a flight on B.A London to Hong Kong - there was only me and another bloke in First class - and we were both in the lounge - when the skipper came out and asked our permission to allow 7 economy passengers to fly in the FC cabin - because that would allow him to shut down all systems in the back end. We then learned that this was the first BA flight for some due due to a pilots strike and although scheduled -was a repositioning aircraft flight to Hong Kong - on to USA - and we 9 - plus 2 full 747 crews - were the only pax I'll never forget the faces of the ground crew in Bombay when we landed for a refueling stop - and there was a line of the usual buses all lined up - because no one had informed the Airport staff BTW - no Moving loading gates etc in those days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Heaton Posted November 26, 2020 Author Share Posted November 26, 2020 just a photo update good to see it named "Longreach" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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