FAREWELL MY QUEEN

QANTAS last month commemorated the departure of its final Boeing 747 with an event at Sydney Airport’s Hangar 96 attended by just 150 fortunate guests, most of them QF staff with a close association with the “Queen of the Skies”. COVID-19 has accelerated the retirement of the jumbo fleet, with the plane tracing a gigantic Qantas Kangaroo logo in the sky en route to its final resting place in the California desert.