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Quentin Long

@qtravels

Australian Traveller & International Traveller co-founder; ABC Sydney, Perth and VIC; Ch9 Today

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Celebrating 100yrs of Qantas - Richard Goyder thanks Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison for their support throughout their careers.

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Celebrating 100 years of Qantas - the average tenure for a Qantas employee is 12 years. A QF employee who worked / volunteered to work the repatriation flights did 200 cumulative days in quarantine.

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Celebrating 100 years of Qantas - Richard Goyder, chairman: the new A350 means australia can be connected to any city in the world. This means we can bring any Australian home from anywhere in the world and that is what matters most.

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Celebrating 100 years of Qantas - Richard Goyder Chairman; We were 12 weeks from going broke and Alan Joyce and his team took huge personal sacrifices to save the airline

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Celebrating 100 years of Qantas - PM Anthony Albanese - when I was the minister responsible for aviation, it was a great comfort to know that no matter where Australians needed help to get home I could call Alan and QF would spring into action and bring them home safely.

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Celebrating 100 years of Qantas - PM Anthony Albanese; on behalf of all Australians I wish to say thank you and wish you another successful 100 years.

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Celebrating 100 years of Qantas - Alan Joyce; History is a prologue it tells you about our future Innovation - we were the tech start up of the year in the 1920s. The founders put their entire life savings into the idea of the business. They started with 6k pounds

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Celebrating 100 years of Qantas - Alan Joyce; In the 30s they did a partnership with the worlds largest airline… QF were just then third airline to cross the Atlantic - an ocean we don’t even touch. QF created business class…

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Celebrating 100 years of Qantas - Alan Joyce; The diversity story… Connie Morgan (?) worked for QF in 40s - she become an aircraft engineer in 42. She could sing off on the work of others. The other male engineers went on strike. The management told the strikers to suck it up

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Celebrating 100 years of Qantas - Alan Joyce; It wasn’t only in gender diversity that we lead. We didn’t get it right all the time .. in the 50s and 60s you couldn’t be out. When it came to First Nations… this company had a bad g role to play.

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Celebrating 100 years of Qantas - Alan Joyce; in 1919 when the founders went looking for places to land aircraft the First Nations people helped the founders find the airfields. They used aboriginal art in the 50s advertising In the 90s Geoff Dixon made the aircraft canvas’

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Celebrating 100 years of Qantas - Alan Joyce; #yhe purpose of QF from day one was to overcome the tyranny of distance. The SYD - LON route shows how far we have come. In the 30s it was 12 days In the 50s four days and seven stops In the next few years it will be non stop

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Celebrating 100 years of Qantas - Alan Joyce; Jetstar has democratised travel and overdone the other tyranny of distance - the cost of travel. I remember the early days where passenger would take the life jackets thinking it was included

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Celebrating 100 years of Qantas - Alan Joyce; From 1942-1945 QF carried more than 270 passenger services and the Japanese knew they were flying and wanted to bring them down. QF never lost one and we delivered important communications.

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Celebrating 100 years of Qantas - Alan Joyce; After the Bali Bombing we brought 4500 Australians home In the Thai yellow revolution we were asked to help bring Australians home. We dropped everything and did it. In the Arab springs we were asked, we put 2 services in and did it

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Hey lads, what has been the greatest discovery / change n historic thinking in the last 30 years (your careers basically)? As in we thought this then we discovered something completely different? Meg resorts stone for our lifetimes? #RIHLive