Quantas Code Sharing

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

Agreement of Washington with New Zealand on sharing aviation codes. As it was revealed in 2002, all September 11 planes were codeshare. Under code-sharing, one airline offers service in its own name to a particular destination, but some or all of the transportation is provided by another carrier which carries its partner's designator code. 

This practice allows carriers to provide more convenient and often seamless service to travelers. "The agreement, reached ... after two days of talks in Washington, allows carriers from each country to enter into code-sharing agreements with each other without limit, effective immediately. It also allows carriers of each country to enter code-sharing arrangements with third-country carriers. Two third-country code-sharing arrangements may begin immediately, and one such arrangement may be added on both April 1, 2002 and April 1, 2003." http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot801.htm 

Compare: Codeshare Partners for US Carriershttp://www.travel.ucla.edu/AM_codeshare.htm#United%20Airlines http://www.travel.ucla.edu/AM_codeshare.htm#United%20Airlines 
http://www.travel.ucla.edu/AM_codeshare.htm 

American Airlines Flight 11 [QANTAS CODESHARE] Boston (BOS) to Los Angeles (LAX) 92 passengers and crew aboard. 
Crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center. 

United Flight 175, a single aircraft, [AIR NEW ZEALAND CODESHARE] Boston(BOS) to Los Angeles (LAX) 65 passengers and crew aboard.
Crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.
Both buildings subsequently collapsed.

American Airlines Flight 77, [QANTAS CODESHARE] Washington, D.C. (IAD) to Los Angeles (LAX) 64 passengers and crew aboard. 
Crashed into the Pentagon. United Airlines, Flight 93 Newark (EWR) to San Francisco (SFO) 

United Flight 93, a single aircraft, [AIR CANADA CODESHARE] 45 passengers and crew aboard.
Crashed near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. 

Qantas and Air New Zealand have confirmed that the flights used in the wave of terrorist attacks in the US overnight were involved with code-share arrangements with the local carriers. Qantas said that it believed six US residents were flying as Qantas codeshare on American Airlines Flight 77 from Washington Dulles to Los Angeles which was deliberately crashed into the US defence headquarters, the Pentagon, just before midnight AEST. Qantas said, that one of its US-based staff members was travelling on company business aboard American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles, which crashed into the World Trade Centre (WTC) in New York.

No passengers or crew are believed to have survived either crash. ... In a statement released this morning Air NZ said United Airlines flight UA 175 from Boston to Los Angeles, which is believed to have crashed into the WTC, was a code-share flight with Air New Zealand operating as NZ9051. "Initial investigations have revealed that Air New Zealand has no record of any of our ticketed passengers being onboard this flight," the company said. 
12 September 2001 http://www.travelbiz.com.au/articles/96/0c007296.asp 

The Australian government asked Qantas to step in on Monday after Air New Zealand made clear it was considering getting rid of its Australian carrier, the country's second biggest airline. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1537011.stm 

It is interesting to note that Ansett (the Australian branch of Air New Zealand) was experiencing considerable difficulties with its fleet of Boeing 767s and had been forced to ground them at least twice. http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/04/10/australia.ansett/ 

Three planes were headed towards Los Angeles. Three buildings were hit. These three planes are directly linked to Qantas. One plane was headed to San Fransisco. This plane was an Air Canada codeshare.

It did NOT hit a building. One should recall, though, that Australia is an ally of the United States. Australia and the United States are collaborating to evaluate and further develop Global Hawk as an airborne surveillance system. 

On 22 April 2001, Global Hawk (ship AV-05) flew non-stop from Edwards AFB, California to Edinburgh RAAF Base, South Australia, where it was based for nearly two months undergoing a series of demonstration flights. Global Hawk, AV-05, returned to Edwards Air Force Base, California on 7 June 2001. http://www.jmallard.com/australia.htm
No hard feelings. http://www.jobshopper.co.uk/archive/98_archive.html