The QUANTAS filter
 

Just as the system is able to identify and **** out inappropriate swear words, could it be similarly modified to filter out QUANTAS and replace it as necessary?

Or better still, auto-insert: "Pleez exkewse the fact that I can't be a***-ed to spell proporly."

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

www.quantas.com - even Qantas seems to be giving up!

Dave99!!!!
I CANT believe it!!!!
that is really funny.

What's funny is, quantas.com for me loads MUCH faster than qantas.com, and also defaults to the US webpage whereas no matter what I do, qantas.com goes to the OZ page... whodathunkit.

Well only Americans are consistently ingorant about how to spell the world's oldest continuously operating airline, so it makes sense to default to their own little world. Heck it it defaulted to the oz site their little brains also would get twisted into knots figuring out "that funny currency". http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

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~ Glen ~

Actually I believe Americans just do not care how a small little airline in OZ cares to spell its name. Acronym or not if we like QUANTAS then QUANTAS it is and apparently from the web site the company agrees!!! Maybe they will repaint the planes next.

rich aka ugley American <SIC>

Isn't that KLM?

<groan>

MUST we have this silly debate every two months?

Quantas/Qantas/QANTAS

All sounds the same!

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Glen,
QFAA

Yep, that would be right RichLond.

You guys spell so poorly 100,000 folks a day I am told need to go to www.WhiteHouse.com to look for photos and advice of President Brush? (Bet they get one heck of a shock on THAT website!) Vice President Dan Quayle was after all positive that potatoe was correct spelling.

Or is that President Busch? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

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~ Glen ~


[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 07-21-2002).]

http://search.britannica.com/search?...Dutch+Airlines

The Encyclopedia Britannica votes for KLM as the oldest airline in continual operation. You'd think with that name they'd side with Qantas. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Dave I recall reading in a Qantas history that KLM did not operate daily for all of WWII when under German occupation. That is why I used the words "continuously operating airline" in the statement.

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~ Glen ~

KLM "It is the world's oldest continuously operating airline."

The encyclopedia didn't leave much wiggle room. However, like any superlative maybe they need a footnote.

OK, then. QF (note the spelling without a "u") is the oldest continuously operating airline from an English-speeking country in the southern hemisphere with a kangaroo image on the tail and a web site for non-spellers.

Is that clear enough http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Clear as mud to me. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

No, they just need a complete re-write. Britanicca wound down their editorial department years ago, and have done SFA work on the database since the .com craze took hold. I wouldn't treat it as gospel - check out what they have to say about Scotland....

From the SAS (partner of Qantas) website:

Under EuroBonus:

Reward yourself with a bonus trip
Points required for bonus trips with Quantas Airways and Quantaslink:

... (award chart follows) ...



[This message has been edited by Austman (edited 07-29-2002).]

"Qantas has the distinction of being the oldest airline in the English-speaking world, and has the second oldest surviving airline name in the world - KLM Royal Dutch Airlines being a year its senior."

http://users.chariot.net.au/~theburfs/qantaspage.html

Although KLM did not fly in the Netherlands whilst the country was occupied by Nazi Germany, operations continued in the Dutch East Indies until they were overrun by the Japanese. The airline maintained a network centered on the Dutch West Indies throughout the war, with flights to Trinidad, Barbados, Venezuela, Colombia, Surinam and Miami. This was known as KLM WIB (West Indisch Bedrijf). KLM also operated flights for NGAT (Netherlands Government Air Transport).

I'm inclined to believe this qualifies KLM as a "continuously operating airline".

KLM was established October 7, 1919; Qantas on November 16, 1920.

johan

The past is history, the present´s a mystery. / Muhammed Ali /

Two pilots in the outback, a small town of Longreach Australia, 800 km from the coast, built 1920 a small airfield and soon the
Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services ( QANTAS ) was born. That´s the reason why Qantas first jumbojet was called Longreach. You can still se the hangar in the town of Longreach. The airport still works.