Qantas A330-300 (A330-303 variant) VH-QPB, which is just in from the QFA20 route from Manila in the Philippines, can do post-apocalyptic just as well as Virgin can. Maybe better, in fact.

This came within a whisker of being nominated for my PAD for this day. In the end I gave it to a Qantas A380 instead.

VH-QPB was delivered to Qantas in December of 2003. It was originally named Freycinet Peninsula, a name which would generally elicit a response of "The Who In The What Now?", (The Freycinet Peninsula juts out from about half way down the east coast of Tasmania. It was named after a French navigator named Louis de Freycinet (1779-1841) who circumnavigated the world and published a map showing the full coastline of Australia in 1811.)

When the plane was reconfigured in 2015 it was renamed Tenant Creek, a town of about 3,000 in the centre of the Northern Territory. Between November and March it has an average temperature slightly higher than the turbofans of VH-QPB in cruise mode.

As of August 2022, it was still operating. Its most recent flight was... today, actually, being QF19 to where? Manila in the Philippines, again.