Qantas Airline yaku Australia idakhala ndege yoyamba kugwiritsa ntchito Airbus A380 pazamalonda ku San Francisco Lachitatu, Januware 14, 2009, ndi ndege yomwe imawulukira mumzinda ngati gawo la kukwezedwa kwapachaka kwa G'Day USA.

Qantas adati A380 yake ikugwira ntchito yokonzekera QF73 pakati pa Sydney ndi San Francisco m'malo mwa Boeing 747-400 wamba, ndipo idzakumana ndi Meya wa San Francisco, Gavin Newsom ndi US ndi Australia akafika.

Woyang'anira wamkulu John Borghetti adati Qantas anali mnzake woyambitsa G'Day USA ndipo akuthandizira kukula kwa mwambowu ku San Francisco. "Zaka zisanu ndi chimodzi zapitazo Qantas adalumikizana ndi Dipatimenti Yowona Zakunja ndi Zamalonda ku Australia, Austrade ndi Tourism Australia kuti athandizire chochitika chofunikira ichi chapachaka chomwe chakhala chikuyenda bwino kwambiri polimbikitsa zinthu zonse zaku Australia ku msika wa United States," adatero Borghetti. "G'Day USA idayamba ku Los Angeles, kukulitsidwa mpaka kugombe lakum'mawa kwa US ndi New York zaka zitatu zapitazo, ndipo tsopano ikukula kwambiri ndikusamukira ku San Francisco."

Borghetti adati kunali koyenera kuti Qantas iwonetse kubwera kwa G'Day USA ku San Francisco ndi chowonjezera chatsopano pazombo zake zapadziko lonse lapansi. "Mu 1954, San Francisco idakhala malo oyamba a Qantas ku US ndipo timayanjana ndi mzindawu. Ndife okondwa kusonyeza ndege zathu zatsopano kwa anthu a ku San Francisco.”

Woyang'anira wamkulu wa Qantas adatinso Qantas A380 inali ndi zochulukirapo kuposa zomwe ndege ikuyembekeza. "Qantas A380 yakhala ikugwira ntchito mpaka katatu pa sabata pakati pa Melbourne, Sydney ndi Los Angeles kuyambira Okutobala, ndipo mayankho amakasitomala akhala abwino kwambiri," adatero.

Malinga ndi iye, Qantas adagwira ntchito ndi wopanga mafakitale wodziwika padziko lonse lapansi waku Australia komanso Mtsogoleri wa Qantas Creative a Marc Newson kwa zaka zingapo "kuti asinthe malonda a ndege padziko lonse lapansi. "Mapangidwe anzeru a ndegeyi amapatsa anthu okwera malo malo, chitonthozo komanso mawonekedwe osaneneka."

Ndege ya ku Sydney yati zombo zake za A380 zakonzedwa ndi mipando 450 - 14 mu Choyamba, 72 mu Business, 32 mu kanyumba kake ka Premium Economy ndi 332 mu Economy.

Qantas pakadali pano imagwira ntchito zobwereza 47 pa sabata pakati pa Australia ndi USA, kuphatikiza 38 kupita ku Los Angeles (kuchokera ku Sydney, Melbourne ndi Brisbane), asanu kupita ku San Francisco ndi anayi ku Honolulu.

Qantas imagwiranso ntchito tsiku lililonse kupita ku New York, kudzera ku Los Angeles.