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QANTAS PERTH-LONDON FLIGHTS TAKE OFF AGAIN AFTER 2 YEARS

written by Hannah Dowling | May 23, 2022

Qantas Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (James D Morgan/Qantas)

The first Qantas non-stop flight between Perth and London will take off on Monday for the first time in over two years.

Flight QF9, operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, is scheduled to depart from Perth at 6:50pm on Monday, landing at London Heathrow after more than 17 hours in the air.

The first leg of the flight, which connects Melbourne and Perth, will take off at 3:15pm local time, and land in Perth four hours later.

It comes just weeks after the Western Australia government confirmed that Qantas will restart the iconic Kangaroo route this month, three weeks ahead of schedule. The QF9 Perth-London route, the only current route that connects Australia and the UK, was originally scheduled to resume on 19 June.

It also comes as Qantas prepares for the launch of a new route from Perth to Rome on 22 June, with QF5 scheduled to operate three times per week initially. The airline said this flight is the only direct service between Australia and mainland Europe.

The popular Perth-London route has been on pause since the beginning of the pandemic, with Qantas opting to shift the layover from eastern states headed to London from Perth to Darwin due to WA’s “conservative border policies”.

The decision was made after Darwin was utilised on a number of occasions for Qantas’ international COVID repatriation flights and has been in commercial operation since Australia’s international border restrictions eased on 1 November 2021.