Australia to Europe is roughly 21 hours total flight time. Even using Business Class, the long-leg Melbourne-Dubai is about 14 hours and not pleasant. We took

Australia to Europe is roughly 21 hours total flight time. Even using Business Class, the long-leg Melbourne-Dubai is about 14 hours and not pleasant. We took to breaking the whole trip into three 7-hour parts, Melbourne-Singapore with 2-3 nights stopover, then Singapore-Dubai with another 2-3 nights stopover, and then the final 7-hour leg Dubai-Paris. This gave sufficient recovery-time between flights for us poor old 70-year-olds and had the benefit of breaking the 9-hour time-zone difference into three smaller jumps that reduced jet-lag quite markedly.