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I believe Qantas will be offering Sydney to London direct on a newer A350 variant latter this year. Should be about 20hrs direct. Travel to europe is a bit of

I believe Qantas will be offering Sydney to London direct on a newer A350 variant latter this year. Should be about 20hrs direct. Travel to europe is a bit of a pain in that layovers and scheduling can easily blow it out to 30+ hours today, especially if going to a secondary market in europe. It makes the ~14 hours overnight to the US west coast seem very reasonable in comparison.

Jedd 2y ago
That route's been touted for a while - and having done the SYD-LHR trip quite a few times, I'm not 100% confident it'd be a significant QoL improvement (except for business travellers). Pricing will be interesting to watch, in any case. As you note, a lot of the time cost is incurred for the 'last mile' part of that trip, so apart from the (tourist / comfort) benefits of splitting flights of that length, I could see it being much less appealing for travellers bouncing through London to get elsewhere into the continent.