20-hour, non-stop flights: Could this be the end of the stopover?

By Ben Groundwater
Updated September 13 2017 - 1:53am, first published 1:47am

You used to have to stop six times to get from Sydney to London. When Qantas first introduced the "Kangaroo Route" in 1947, its Lockheed Constellation plane, carrying a grand total of 29 passengers, would depart Sydney and then stop in Darwin, Singapore, Calcutta, Karachi, Cairo and Tripoli before eventually touching down in London.

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