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COMPANY INTERNAL ANALYSIS
a. List of core activities (what products they make / provide; describe)
Qantas is one of Australia’s top leading airways, it was found on the 16th November 1920 in Winton Queensland. Qantas carries a 65% share of the Australian domestic market and carries 18.7% of all passengers travelling in and out of Australia
Some of the core activities Qantas provides for their customers are
• Qantas link
• Qantas catering
• Qantas Freight
• Qantas Holidays
• Defence
Qantas link operates over 2000 flights every week to 56 metropolitan, regional and international destinations across Australia and to Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.
Qantas Catering Group Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary that operates two catering businesses - Q Catering and Snap Fresh. Q Catering has catering centres in six Australian ports - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Cairns, Adelaide and Perth. Snap Fresh is a state-of-the-art plant in Queensland built to centralise meal production for airlines and to supply non-aviation markets
Qantas freight mostly focuses on airfreight services and Qantas provide an excellence service. Qantas freight is Australia’s largest independent airfreight services business employing over 1300 people in Australia and worldwide. Qantas freight operates a network of 21 specialist cargo handling terminals in 15 major gateway ports across Australia ant terminal in Los Angeles.
Qantas Freight operates a fleet of 12 freighter aircraft to supplement capacity to key import and export destinations in Australia and around the world. The aircraft operate a mix of scheduled and charter services, including seven weekly services from Australia to China, five weekly services between China and the United States and 37 nightly inter-capital Australian domestic services
Qantas also owns some specialist logistics businesses around the world including
• Express Freighters Australia (EFA); a wholly-owned subsidiary freighter management company which has

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