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Qantas Airways Limited ( ; ) is the flag carrier airline 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". The airline is based in the Sydney suburb of Mascot with its main hub at Sydney Airport. Qantas has a 65% share of the Australian domestic market and carries 14.9% of all passengers travelling in and out of Australia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Qantas International’s market share slips as capacity growth slows )〕〔(In Detail, Here's why Alan Joyce says Qantas must defend its 65% marketshare ) ''Business Insider'' 5 March 2014.〕 Its subsidiaries QantasLink and Jetconnect provide services within Australia and to New Zealand respectively, flying under the Qantas brand. Qantas also owns the low-cost airline Jetstar, which operates both domestic and international services, and holds stakes in a number of its sister airlines. Qantas operates a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft. It was the only airline in the world to have a fleet made up solely of Boeing 747s during the 1980s, and in 2008 began to replace the type with the Airbus A380 as part of its fleet renewal. Qantas is a founding member of the Oneworld airline alliance, which at September 2015 comprised 15 international airlines. ==History== (詳細はWinton, Queensland on 16 November 1920 as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited. The airline's first aircraft was an Avro 504K. The airline flew internationally from May 1935, when it commenced service from Darwin, Northern Territory to Singapore. In June 1959 Qantas entered the jet age when the first Boeing 707-138 was delivered. In 1920 Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd had its headquarters in Winton, Queensland. In 1921 the head office moved to Longreach, Queensland. In 1930 the head office moved to Brisbane. In 1957 a head office, Qantas House, opened along Hunter Street in Sydney.〔Easdown, Geoff. "(Qantas through the years )." ''The Herald Sun''. 22 November 2006. Retrieved 28 April 2010.〕 In the 1970s a new A$50 million headquarters, consisting of twin skyscrapers, was being built in Sydney and expected to take one city block. The first and largest tower had an expected completion time in 1973.〔MacDonald, John. "(Qantas Plans $80m outlay—on ground )." ''The Age''. Wednesday 7 January 1970. Home News 8. Retrieved from Google News 5 of 19 on 28 April 2010.〕 On , Qantas acquired domestic airline, Australian Airlines, which was originally established as Trans Australia Airlines in the 1940s and renamed Australian Airlines in 1986. The airline started to be rebranded to Qantas in the following year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Qantas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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