THE QANTAS GROUP AT A GLANCE
HISTORY Qantas is the world's second oldest airline. Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, it is Australia’s largest domestic and international airline and is recognised as one of the world's leading long distance carriers, having pioneered services from Australia to North America and Europe. The Qantas Group today employs approximately 32,500 people and offers services across a network spanning 182 destinations in 44 countries (including those covered by codeshare partners) in Australia, Asia and the Pacific, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
BUSINESS AND INVESTMENTS The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of passengers using two complementary airline brands – Qantas and Jetstar. Qantas is divided into three closely related groups, Commercial, Customer and Marketing, and Operations. The Commercial group includes sales and distribution, commercial planning, QantasLink and alliances. Customer and Marketing includes customer experience, cabin crew, inflight services and marketing. The Operations group comprises engineering, airports, catering, flight operations, operations planning and control and Qantas Aviation Services. Jetstar, the Group’s low fares airline also manages the Jetstar Asia operations based in Singapore. In addition to the airline brands, the Qantas Group operates Qantas Frequent Flyer and Qantas Freight. The Group has additional equity interests in airline and airline-related businesses, including a 27 per cent stake in Vietnam’s Jetstar Pacific; a 46 per cent interest in Air Pacific and an interest in Jetset Travelworld Group. Qantas is also a partner with Australia Post in two jointly controlled entities: Australian air Express, a domestic air freight operator; and Star Track Express, a national road freight business.
FLIGHTS AND ROUTES Domestically, Qantas, QantasLink and Jetstar operate around 5,600 flights a week serving 59 city and regional destinations in all states and mainland territories (Qantas – nearly 2,400; QantasLink – nearly 2,000; Jetstar – around 1,200). Jetstar also operates 160 domestic flights a week in New Zealand. Internationally, Qantas and Jetstar operate more than 970 flights each week (Qantas – 630; Jetstar – 340). The Group’s network comprises 182 destinations in 44 countries, including Australia and those served by codeshare partner airlines.
FLEET At 1 September 2010, the Qantas Group operated a fleet of 252 aircraft, comprising Boeing 747s, 767s, 737s and 717s, Airbus A380s, A330s and A320s, Bombardier Dash 8s and Bombardier Q400s.
OPERATIONAL STATISTICS – QANTAS GROUP 
Passengers carried (000): Year ended 30 June 2009 Qantas 23,622 QantasLink 4,120 Jetstar 10,696 Total: 38,438 PKs2 (m): 99,176 ASKs3 (m): 125,594
Year ended 30 June 2010
22,540 4,323 14,5651
41,428 100,727 124,717
1 Includes Jetstar Asia for the period 8 April-30 June 2010
2 Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPKs – number of paying passengers carried, multiplied by number of kilometres
　
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