Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) retired all of its remaining B747-400ERs with the last unit of the type, VH-OEJ (msn 32914), ferried from Sydney Kingsford Smith via Los Angeles International to Mojave on July 22, 2020.
The Australian airline announced earlier in July that it would not return the Boeing quadjets to service, after weeks of speculation. It operated three "farewell joy flights", the last of which, flown on July 17 around Canberra, being the last Qantas B747 flight with passengers onboard.
The airline had five B747-400(ER)s in its fleet when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the suspension of its entire international scheduled network. The last revenue service of the type, except for the farewell flights which carried paying passengers, was operated on March 29, 2020, by VH-OEE (msn 32909), as QF28 from Santiago de Chile to Sydney Kingsford Smith.
During its ferry flight to Los Angeles, VH-OEJ overflow the Sydney Harbour, the HARS Aviation Museum at Wollongong airport, and "drew" the carrier's kangaroo symbol off the eastern coast of Australia.
Following the retirement of the B747s, Qantas' widebody fleet consists of eighteen A330-200s, ten A330-300s, eleven B787-9s, and twelve A380-800s.
