Passengers who have longed dreamed of having a direct flight from Australia to London are about to have their wishes granted as Qantas recently announced a new route that flies passengers from Perth, Australia to London. The flight will take up to 17.5 hours making it the world's longest nonstop flight. Passengers who plan on booking tickets for these upcoming flights will want to stock up on some sleeping pills.
Qantas will be acquiring some new Boeing 787 Dreamliners by next year and these planes will be used for the flights from Perth to London. Passengers will be traveling a total of 8,989 miles on the 17.5-hour flight. The previous record for the longest flight was held by Emirate Airlines and their flights going from Dubai to Auckland lasting approximately 16 hours and 35 minutes, and stretching around 8,823 miles.
The Perth to London flights will not be operational until March 2018, but this has not stopped the city of Perth from already trying to position itself as an international hub that can help link Europe and the South Pacific. Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has called it a "game-changing route flown by a game-changing flight."
Qantas has long wanted to have flights that go directly to the U.K., so this new move can be considered a holy grail for the Australian airline company. Qantas flights going from Australia to Europe have always had to stop over in Singapore and Dubai before landing in the European continent.
According to a report from Gizmodo, tickets for flights going from Perth to London will be available by April of 2017, but no prices have been announced as of this time. Apart from holding the record of the world's longest flight, the Perth-London route will also have two distinct titles once it goes live in March of 2018: the first nonstop flight from Australia to Europe, and the longest flight going to or from Australia.
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