The loan is the first of a series under a loan facility programme set up by the Australian airline, which reported near-record profits in the year to June.
SYDNEY: Australia's Qantas Airways is the latest company to drop Research in Motion Ltd's Blackberry after employees voted in favor of Apple's iPhone in a survey.
RIM virtually invented mobile e-mail, making it the phone of choice for companies when it rolled out its first BlackBerry devices more than a decade ago. But its market share has evaporated as consumers flock to iPhones and other devices based on Google Inc's Android system.
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