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New routes, capacity and passenger experience coming from overseas carriers

Oddly enough, parking my rental car under the shadow of a Boeing 747-400 wing wasn’t the strangest part of visiting Qantas’s retired VH-OJA City of Canberra at the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) at the Illawarra Regional Airport near Wollongong. It wasn’t the slight cognitive disconnect that VH-EBA, the Boeing 707 at the Qantas Founders Museum in Longreach, is also named City of Canberra either.

It wasn’t the strange sight of a 747 with only two engines attached to the nacelles – and no, the Rolls-Royce RB211 powerplants weren’t lifted by locals, they were removed by Qantas for use until the end of their operational lives.