In addition to the direct, 14,498km Perth-London flights, Qantas is also eying non-stop flights to Paris, Rome and Frankfurt on the airline's new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
Qantas is confident that passengers will embrace its direct, 17-hour flights from Australia to London when they launch in March 2018.
In addition to the direct, 14,498km Perth-London flights, Qantas is also eying non-stop flights to Paris, Rome and Frankfurt on the airline's new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
"When Qantas created the Kangaroo Route to London in 1947, it took four days and nine stops," Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said. "Now it will take just 17 hours from Perth non-stop."
The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners used on the route will carry 236 passengers, Qantas said. No fare details have been released.
Qantas passengers from Australia’s eastern states will transit in Perth rather than flying through Dubai – as they do now – on their way to London.
The current longest non-stop scheduled flight is Emirates Airlines' 14,200-kilometre Dubai-to-Auckland service, which takes 16 hours 35 minutes in an Airbus A380.
Here’s what you can do in 17 hours, according to the BBC:
- Fly to the International Space Station almost three times
- Read about a third of War And Peace - at an average of three words a second
- Watch the first 18 episodes of Games of Thrones, and still have half an hour to spare.
- Play 11 games of soccer