Qantas makes history on Australia-UK flight

Australia: After 17 hours in the air, the first scheduled non-stop flight between Australia and the UK touched down at London's Heathrow Airport on Sunday, March 25.
The jet took off from the western city of Perth cutting flying time roughly three hours by skipping stopovers in Singapore or the Middle East.
The Qantas flight, operated by a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, covered a distance of more than nine thousand miles and is the world's second-longest flight after a Qatar Airways service between Doha and Auckland, New Zealand.
Qantas' chief executive Alan Joyce has labelled the flight a 'game-changer'. The airline plans to introduce non-stop flights from Australia's east coast to Britain in the next few years.