Kangaroo Route
description: flight routes from Australia to United Kingdom via Eastern Hemisphere
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In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson · 31 Aug 2000
them. Even in normal conditions they flew at a height guaranteed to produce more or less constant turbulence. (Qantas called it, without evident irony, the Kangaroo Route.) It was, by any modern measure, an ordeal. So for nearly every immigrant throughout the 1950s, a trip to Australia meant a five-week sea
The Chairman's Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out
by Joe Aston · 27 Oct 2024 · 362pp · 130,141 words
the minutiae of the Qantas–Emirates joint service agreement but I have no doubt that Qantas is an economic beneficiary of Emirates’ success on the kangaroo route and it was very clear that for Emirates, more capacity for Qatar would have been a problem.’ Launched in 1994, nine years after Emirates, Qatar
Aerotropolis
by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay · 2 Jan 2009 · 603pp · 182,781 words
mission to rewire the world’s paths from Point A to Point B. After it broke into Australia, for example, it pounced on the lucrative “kangaroo routes” linking the Antipodes to London. The cities are far enough apart that no aircraft can make it on a regular tank. There’s no reason