Today you can reach Australia from the UK in less than 20 hours. You can even take a non-stop flight from London to Perth, after the service was introduced in 2018. It's still a long time to be in the air but a trip to Oz used to take much longer. In 1935, the first Qantas flight from the UK to Australia (known as the Kangaroo Route) lasted 12 days, with multiple stops. Good thing there was all that free food and drinks to keep passengers entertained.

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How air travel has changed in the last 100 years