The Spirit of Qantas Stories

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A chat with Ashley Howell, our new Regional General Manager for the Americas We recently caught up with Ashley Howell, who has taken on the role of Regional General Manager for the Amer

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My journey to becoming a meteorologist was a winding road. I’ve always been curious about how things work. I was a geologist first and worked on exploration projects in West Africa. Afte

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This year marks 70 years of Qantas flying from Australia to North America. Right now, people fly 14 or 15 hours and we think it’s forever! But when we started, it took 30 or so hours,

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I’ve been flying for almost 14 years. I was originally based in Brisbane and now I’ve been in Sydney for the past 10 years. My mother was a flight attendant in the late 1970s a

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Dana is Cabin Crew Training Manager at QantasLink and National Jet Systems. She is also a dedicated member of the Aviation Safety Training Working Group. Where did your career at Qantas

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My parents met at Qantas in 1967. Dad was an apprentice, and Mum was working in production planning in Hangar 96. So, I’ve been around aircraft my whole life. Dad flew light planes and

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I’ve been here for 20 years. I started as a QantasLink flight attendant, then moved into cabin crew training. I’ve worked in emergency planning, with our corporate sales and agency par

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I will never forget the feeling of standing on the tarmac in 2008 waiting for the first Qantas A380 to arrive in Singapore. It was our biggest and most iconic aircraft, travelling the fam