Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/25/quantas-sells-decommissioned-747-airplane-bar-carts-stocked.html
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Its QANTAS
Queensland and Northern Territory Air Service.
Came here to say exactly this! Nobody who knows the etymology of this true acronym would ever spell it incorrectly…
Especially not if they come from Qeensland.
aww…I was hoping it was more like this:
Needs more @pesco (please fix misspelling in headline, Pesco)
No, Quantas is a different one.
Quantum and Northern Territory Air Service.
Tiger made more use of quantum states. Your flight could both exist and not exist at the same time.
Their “Come And Leap With Us” ad campaign in the mid-70’s really stuck in people’s minds.
I had my first (and second, and third and fourth) legal* alcoholic drink served out of one of those carts.
*20 years old, flying to Sydney from a country where the legal drinking age is 21
Fixed, Thanks!
It’s.“It’s.”
Thus proving that you can’t point out somebody else’s mistake without making your own.
Barcart? Things sure have gotten much more cushy since the days of the double sunrise service
I think it’s available again!
I had the opposite experience. As a 19 year-old with a backpack and the cheapest possible flight from Melbourne to LA (stopping on the way at Auckland, Nadi and Honolulu), I arrived to discover I’d have to lie to get a beer.
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