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Back in the early days of long-haul flight, it could take you up to ten days to fly on a lumbering Short Brothers flying boat to travel from Sydney to London with 37 intermediate stops along the way. Later on, by the late 1940s, this arduous journey would be cut to 54 flight hours and seven stops with the arrival of the Lockheed Super Constellation into the Qantas fleet. Carrying just 29 passengers and taking four days in total, the Constellations offered a new level of long-haul luxury on one of the longest scheduled airline routes at the time.<\/p>\n

The 1960s saw the dawn of the jet age, with Qantas<\/a> and BOAC both introducing the illustrious and groundbreaking Boeing 707 intercontinental jetliner onto the route, making just two or three stops along the way. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Nowadays, the journey can be made in around 20 hours by Qantas\u2019 fleet of Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners or Airbus A380s with a single stop along the way in what has become commonly known as the \u201cKangaroo route\u201d. \u00a0In the next year or so, the journey will be transformed once again with the inauguration of the first non-stop scheduled commercial flights between Sydney and London, to be operated by Qantas\u2019 all-new Airbus A350-1000 ultra-long-haul jets when they arrive from the European planemaker in 2026.<\/p>\n