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title: "Qantas Airlines’ $1,048 Fully Stocked Boeing 747 Bar Carts Sold Out In Minutes"
description: "Buyers took home wine, Tim Tams, first-class sleep kits and a cool piece of flying history."
date: "2020-09-24"
modified: "2020-09-24"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/36736/qantas-airlines-1048-fully-stocked-boeing-747-bar-carts-sold-out-in-minutes"
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  - "Culture"
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  - "Aviation"
---

# Qantas Airlines’ $1,048 Fully Stocked Boeing 747 Bar Carts Sold Out In Minutes

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If you miss [flying](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/36549/airports-have-to-change-runway-names-when-magnetic-north-moves>) around the world, don't take a silly sightseeing flight to [nowhere](<https://jalopnik.com/airlines-are-offering-sightseeing-flights-that-go-nowhe-1845129421>). Instead, you can experience the best part of flying from the comfort and safety of your own home thanks to Australia's Qantas Airlines, which put some of its fully stocked [Boeing 747 drinks carts](<https://wine.qantas.com/l/747-bar-carts>) up for sale.

Qantas retired its last 747 in July, so it put the 747s' drinks cars up for sale to make a bit of extra cash, reports [*Simple Flying*](<https://simpleflying.com/qantas-boeing-747-drinks-carts/>). That retirement came ahead of schedule due to the ongoing [pandemic](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/34130/beat-quarantine-by-camping-in-a-ford-transit-camper-van-for-200-a-night>), so Qantas is now trying some interesting things to make up the loss in funds. You could get a full bar cart or a half bar cart from its fleet of 65 Boeing 747s, but you had to act fast—the bar carts sold out within minutes of going live.

https://youtube.com/embed/0RdTzI02UqE

Both bar carts included delivery, so there's no queuing whatsoever involved in claiming your new purchase, however, they were only available to people in Australia. The full-size carts cost $1,048 U.S. ($1,474.70 Australian) or 256,000 frequent flyer points, and the half-carts cost $687.75 U.S. ($974.70 Australian) or 169,000 frequent flier points.

The bar carts were used, so you're getting authentic in-flight dings and scuffs here. More importantly, though, they had everything you'd need to get cozy on a [flight](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/36311/ups-transformed-cargo-planes-to-haul-passengers-every-weekend-for-its-short-lived-charter-service>): Tim Tams, full-size bottles of champagne, mini-bottles of white and red wine, smoked almonds, savory biscuits, amenity kits, first-class blankets and sleepwear.

![message-editor%2F1601000322399-screenshot2020-09-24at8.58.21pm.png](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1601000322399-screenshot2020-09-24at8.58.21pm.png>)
**[Screencap via Qantas](<https://wine.qantas.com/l/747-bar-carts>)**

*Simple Flying* did the math on how much the full carts alone brought in using fleet data from [*Planespotters.net*](<https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Qantas>). Just selling 65 carts would net the airline $68,120 U.S. (or $95,855 Australian) in sales. That, of course, assumes that the airline had some extras and kept a few here and there.

Other memorabilia from the retired 747 fleet will be auctioned off to the 149 passengers who booked tickets on Qantas' sold-out flight to nowhere, reports *Simple Flying*. That flight also sold out in just minutes.

![message-editor%2F1601001191499-qantascateringcartsimage1.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1601001191499-qantascateringcartsimage1.jpg>)
*Contents of the bar cart., *Qantas**

Meanwhile, Qantas' last 747 got its own worthy [send-off](<https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-farewells-queen-of-the-skies/>), complete with water cannons and a picture of a kangaroo drawn in the sky. It ultimately got parked in the American desert.

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## Author
Stef Schrader is a former senior staff writer for The Drive. She started writing about cars in 2013 after meeting Jalopnik's editor-in-chief at a race track, where Stef can be found at every available opportunity.

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