Australia Asia Airlines was a wholly owned subsidiary of Qantas set up to operate services between Australia and Taiwan in 1990. Qantas was not able to fly to Taiwan in its own right due to mainland Chinese sensitivities about the breakaway province. Similar arrangements were made by British Airways and Japan Airlines amongst others. Qantas (pronounced Kwon-tus) (ASX: QAN) is Australias oldest and largest airline, and the worlds second oldest airline after KLM. (IATA designator code: QF, ICAO designator code: QFA, and airline call sign: Qantas) History The company was founded on 16 November 1920 as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial... Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is the sixth-largest country in the world, the only country to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia/Oceania. ... Taiwan is mostly mountainous in the east, but gradually transitions to gently sloping plains in the west (satellite photo by NASA). ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... British Airways is the largest airline of the United Kingdom. ... JAL Boeing 747-400 Japan Airlines (Japanese: 日本航空 Nihon Kōkū, or JAL) is the largest airline in Asia. ...

The airline operated Boeing 747SP and Boeing 767 aircraft seconded from the Qantas fleet. They were repainted with a slightly different livery, the flying kangaroo replaced by a dynamic ribbon. It ceased operation in 1996 and its aircraft returned to Qantas service. The 747SP aircraft have since been scrapped. Qantas now operates services to Taiwan as a code share out of Sydney with Taiwanese carrier EVA Air. The Boeing 747, which is also known as the jumbo jet, is the second largest passenger airliner after the Airbus A380. ... The Boeing 767 is a commercial passenger airplane manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Code sharing is a business term used in the airline industry for a procedure whereby one airline operates a service using its own flight number, e. ... This is about the city of Sydney in Australia. ... EVA Air (長榮航空 Changrong Hangkong, or Evergreen Airlines) is an airline based at Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport in Taoyuan, Taiwan, near Taipei. ...

Code Data

• IATA Code: IM
• ICAO Code: AAU
• Callsign: Austasia

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External Links

• Australia Asia Airlines Fleet Detail (http://www.planemad.net/Airline/AU/Australia_Asia_Airlines_(IM_AAU)/Fleet.htm?show=all)