The airline earlier this year completed the first non-stop scheduled flight between the UK and Australia.
Qantas Flight QF9 touched down in London on March 26 after its 9,009-mile journey from Perth.
That 17-hour flight though to south-west Australia looks set to be eclipsed by a 20-hour non-stop journey to Sydney on Australia’s south-east coast.
The barrier to such a long transit has always been the ability to simply keep an aircraft in the air for an extended period of time.
