Over the weekend Qantas announced that they'll begin 787 flights between Perth and London in March 2018, which will be the world's longest 787 flight, and also the first nonstop flight between Australia and Europe. For whatever reason I was under the impression that this would be Qantas' first longhaul 787 route, though as it…
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Bit bummed. I was expecting MEL-DFW, but maybe it was too risky given the drama with the AA/QF joint venture.
Those business class seats definitely look like like an upgrade from their current business class seats - I flew the A380 SYD > DFW in J a couple of months back, and was not impressed by the seat - despite being labelled as "fully flat", I found it had a significant slope, and sleeping was difficult.
Qantas is such a great airline and I hope it works out. I've spent 15 hours abroad Qantas to the U.S. in economy, without a problem. I'd imagine just two more hours for a direct flight from Oz to the UK would still be appealing for many Brits and Aussies. It's strange though to think of Perth as a major international gateway into Australia. It's very far-flung and quite expensive/long to fly from Perth to the East Coast.
This means that just about all the Qantas 787's are spoken for, right? I think it takes 3 planes to service one ultra-longhaul route like PER-LHR and MEL-LAX, so that's 6 of the 8 birds spoken for right there. Maybe 2 for a <10 hr route to Asia, like KUL?