Wizofoz,
I don't want to get into the debate about the relative merits of EK FTL and living in the sandpit, but I must correct your recollection of Ansett's Japan operation. AN never operated to Tokyo, the only destination was KIX, and the BOC flight was KIX-BNE, not KIX-SYD. From memory the scheduled flight time time was less than 9 hours. Also that was only operated by the B747 not the B767.