Qantas Perth-LHR
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A journalist for the West Australian newspaper was on board and wrote this article. This point in particular explains the appeal of ULH for many:
Yes, lots of people like to break a long trip nearer the middle, but for many it'll be preferable to push on through and have as long an uninterrupted flight time as possible.
As we reached the point where we’d be usually be expected a wander around a middle eastern airport, I was out cold. The last thing I wanted was to be thrust into the fluorescent airport lights shopping for duty free.
It’s for this reason the non-stop flight wins out for me. A family sitting near me would have had to disturb their children to traipse through security once again. The parents didn’t want it, the kids didn’t want it, nobody wanted it. We wanted to keep resting – and we could.
It’s for this reason the non-stop flight wins out for me. A family sitting near me would have had to disturb their children to traipse through security once again. The parents didn’t want it, the kids didn’t want it, nobody wanted it. We wanted to keep resting – and we could.
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Anyone who's flown QF economy will understand why they couldn't muster 480 victims in one go 
With the lower number of seats on the 787 they are probably hoping to get a yield premium for the PER traffic that prefers nonstop.
But as others have said if I'm going to SYD, BNE or MEL I'll be sticking to an A380 via SIN (or anywhere for that matter) thanks
With the lower number of seats on the 787 they are probably hoping to get a yield premium for the PER traffic that prefers nonstop.
But as others have said if I'm going to SYD, BNE or MEL I'll be sticking to an A380 via SIN (or anywhere for that matter) thanks
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Anyway, all is well. Simon Calder is taking QF10 to Perth this afternoon. During an interview on the BBC earlier today, he quoted an Australian blogger (I wish I could remember the name) who was on QF9 and didn't have a particularly rosy view of the flight, complaining of a lack of comfort. No doubt Mr Calder will have reams to write about the trip and I am sure we are all agog, hanging on his every word!
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Anyway, all is well. Simon Calder is taking QF10 to Perth this afternoon. During an interview on the BBC earlier today, he quoted an Australian blogger (I wish I could remember the name) who was on QF9 and didn't have a particularly rosy view of the flight, complaining of a lack of comfort. No doubt Mr Calder will have reams to write about the trip and I am sure we are all agog, hanging on his every word!
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He's the travel correspondent of the Independent newspaper (actually online only now), but also the BBC's go to person. Indeed I'm not sure if any other national newspaper has a travel correspondent any more.
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One of my guests at the moment is a Brit/Aussie and travels annually to UK, he resides in SYD, when I mentioned to him about the PER/LHR service at first he joked about the Western Australians not being sufficient to justify the service but once he gave it some thought he commented that there are a lot of poms living in the outlying regions of WA.
But when I pointed out to him that en-route stops in the likes of DXB, BKK & SIN are wasted time but during a stop in PER one could clear customs & immigration and arrive in SYD as a domestic passenger his face lit up, he liked that idea.
But when I pointed out to him that en-route stops in the likes of DXB, BKK & SIN are wasted time but during a stop in PER one could clear customs & immigration and arrive in SYD as a domestic passenger his face lit up, he liked that idea.
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I haven't travelled in a QF B787 but I have travelled in a 10 across seating AF B777 for a 12 hour night flight and a B787 simply cannot be so bad.
Furthermore my longest flight to date was 14.5 hours MNL/AMS and this was in the days when I was a smoker, some 15.5 hours without a fag, and it wasn't so bad, once one has been in the air for some 14 hours what's another 3 hours?
