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.
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Came here to say exactly this! Nobody who knows the etymology of this true acronym would ever spell it incorrectly…
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Especially not if they come from Qeensland.
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aww…I was hoping it was more like this:
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No, Quantas is a different one.
Quantum and Northern Territory Air Service.
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Tiger made more use of quantum states. Your flight could both exist and not exist at the same time.
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Their “Come And Leap With Us” ad campaign in the mid-70’s really stuck in people’s minds.
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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
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Fixed, Thanks!
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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
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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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