Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services

♦ [August 19, 1920]
  (Western Queensland Auto Aerial Service Limited)  ───► [Initial Registered Name]
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[Late August 1920]
  (Australian Transcontinental Aerial Services Co.) ───► [Second Proposed/Rejected Name]
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                         X (Merged/Scrapped for Final Incorporation)
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[November 16, 1920]
  Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited (Q.A.N.T.A.S.)
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                         ├── Started as a charter and joyflight operator in Winton
                         ├── Began official mail operations (March 1921)
                         └── Launched first scheduled passenger flights (November 1922)
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[December 1934]
  Qantas Empire Airways Limited (QEA)
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                         ├── Joint venture formed between Q.A.N.T.A.S. and Imperial Airways (UK)
                         ├── Launched first international flights to Singapore (1935)
                         └── Nationalised by the Australian Government (1947) 
                             (Domestic lines split off to Trans-Australia Airlines)
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[August 1967]
  Qantas Airways Limited (Modern Parent Entity)
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                         ├── Rebranded to match the dawn of the Boeing 747/Jumbo Jet era
                         ├── Re-acquired domestic operations by buying Australian Airlines (1992)
                         ├── Privatised and listed publicly on the ASX (1993-1997)
                         └── Co-founded the Oneworld Alliance (1998)

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