Qantas routes/destinations in the 1970's and 1980's
 

Hello,

We would like to know the Qantas routes/destinations it had in the 70's and 80's with both the Boeing 707 and 747. We have not been able to get a hold of some time-tables from that era but people we have asked who travelled on Qantas from that time period have given us some clues, but their memories are fading so we would like some confirmation. Note, these are for flights operated by Qantas directly; not code share with other airlines.

This is what we have so far;

Europe destinations from Australia;
London, Manchester, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, Athens, Rome, Belgrade, Istanbul, Vienna

Asia/Middle East destinations from Australia;
Bahrain, Bombay, Tehran, Damascus, Calcutta, Karachi, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Denpasar (Bali), Manila, Colombo,Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Hong Kong, Beijing

Pacific/USA destinations from Australia;
Honolulu, Port Moresby, Nadi, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago,Vancouver, Torronto, Tahiti, Acapulco, Mexico City, Nassau, Bermuda, Papeete, Noumea, Norfolk Island

Africa destinations from Australia;
Johannesburg, Mauritius, Harare, Cairo

Please correct what's already listed, or add those which are missing.

Thank you.

I can tell you with absolute certainty that Edinburgh has never been a Qantas destination and I don't think Abu Dhabi was - certainly not in the 70s
when I worked at the airport there. I think your best bet is to check one of the Airline timetable websites to see what they have.

I seem to remember they did a JFK-LHR daytime flight in early 70's with B707 flt No QF534 or similar.

The route from Manchester began in April 1983 (1st I think!) and operated via Heathrow or possibly Amsterdam.

QF transited Dubai, not Abu Dabi.

Did QF operate to Belgrade, or only in pool with JAT?

For the record, with respect to Tailwheel, QF never operated to DXB in that period [or ever for that matter]; the Gulf port was BAH.

See D&G questions.

G'day ;)

Apologies. :uhoh:

Now recall the DBX stop over was on KLM. You're correct, QF transited via BAH, where for some reason I've now forgotten, the window slides were pulled down as we taxied into the terminal.

Operated to Belgrade.

QF did not operate to Edinburgh, Copenhagen or Abu Dhabi.

QF did operate to Istanbul, Vienna, Karachi, Calcutta, Damascus, Colombo, Tehran, Delhi, Papeete, Mexico City, Nassau, Noumea, Bermuda, New York, Mauritius and Joburg.

Without delving too deeply into old log books, I think that's about it. Ah yes, 14 sector LHR trips - land on just about every bit of flat ground between SYD and LHR.

There were also military charters to Saigon and migrant charters to Lima and a few European ports.

BTW, what's a B797? We had B707s then B747s.

Add the following:

Acapulco, Bermuda, Chicago, Harare, Madrid, Mexico City, Mauritius, Nassau, Noumea, Papeete. Port Moresby, Toronto, Vienna.

There were a few others pre the 707 and 747.

mustafagander. We must have been typeing at the same time.

Thank you very much for the information! Really appreciate it. I don't believe this information is available anywhere on the Internet but here!

oooops .. pressed the '9' key instead of the '0' key on the keyboard.

I see we have a parallel thread running on D & G

http://www.pprune.org/d-g-general-av...70s-1980s.html

Rgds

ooops yes, please divert to the other thread.