Well,
on my final trip of the contract, it takes about:
4 hours to LHR,
at least 2 hours getting aboard,
14 hour flight to Singapore,
one hour on the groung there,
7.5 hours to my nearest major airport in Oz,
45 minutes in the car to my home in the 'Sunshine coast',
all up, it seems like ya'all are, in some ways, more fortunate!
in many other ways, not nearly so!!
Cheers.