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A non-stop London to Sydney flight is coming – could you handle it?
On a stage at the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, the chief executive of Australian airline Qantas declares: "The tyranny of distance has finally been conquered".
Vanessa Hudson was in the French city last week to announce the world's first 20-plus hour flight route.
The airline first flew what it named the Kangaroo route between London and Sydney in 1947. At the time, it was an odyssey spanning seven stops and four days.
Those stops have been gradually reduced, with Qantas now stopping only once, in Singapore, on the way through.
But 80 years after that 1940s venture, the first non-stop flight between the two cities is set to take off from October 2027.
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When Qantas first flew between Sydney and London in 1947 on the “Kangaroo Route”, the journey took a whopping five days and included seven laborious stops. This week, the airline and Airbus announced that its world-first, ultra-long-range aircraft will travel on the same route from October 2027 – taking only 22 hours.
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