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Old 8th October 2008, 06:54 AM
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Default QANTAS Round world service?

Can anyone provide the date when this concluded?

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Old 8th October 2008, 10:08 AM
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I'm pretty sure I read that Qantas discontinued Sydney-London Southern Cross Routing (Via Nrth. America) not long after 707 was introduced. I can't provide a definite answer but at a guess I'd say Early 60's.





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After the introduction of its low fare policy in 1972, Qantas embarked upon a major rationalization of its route network. Margins were extremely tight and the airline could not afford to spread its operations over wide areas of the world for reasons of prestige alone. Hence Qantas decided to discontinue its "Southern Cross Route" to London as it had done earlier in the case of operations between Hong Kong and London.
That came from this website here, although i cannot vouch for where the information originally came from.

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The old 'Fiesta' route was my favourite
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That came from this website here, although i cannot vouch for where the information originally came from.

Hope that answers your question
That's close enough for me. Thanks, I've been searching for days. Much appreciated.

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That's close enough for me. Thanks, I've been searching for days. Much appreciated.

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