London, or New York? Qantas will next week reveal which city will see the first non-stop Project Sunrise flights, and when the “inaugural commercial services” are expected to take off from Sydney.
There are solid cases to be made for each of these premium destinations.
The prospect of the Sydney–London Kangaroo Route being reduced to a single globe-striding hop carries huge historical significance for Qantas, Australia and the UK.
This has been bolstered in light of the ongoing Iran war, which has impacted long-established flight paths over the Middle East.
That’s because one possible flight path from Sydney (and, later, Melbourne) to London is an arctic route up across Japan and Alaska, over the North Pole, then spearing down past Greenland and the edge of Norway to London.
But New York can’t be ruled out, and in some circles is considered the more likely launch route.
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