Possible EK Rome to Sydney in the future
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Possible EK Rome to Sydney in the future
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There are a huge number of Italians who emigrated to Australia so I suppose there could be the demand however I would think the fuel bill would be extraordinary.
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I don't think he meant he's thinking of flights from Sydney to Rome direct, as Rowan said it's likely from a technology point of view. He was talking to the NZ Herald so perhaps he thought a route from Sydney-Europe might be a more understandable analogy than from Dubai to somewhere (although I'm sure the NZers would like to have direct AKL-DXB flights sometime soon!)
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I agree that FCO-SYD seems bizarre. The mileage is not much longer than via DXB, so would it really be viable just to save the connection? I would think that the holy grail of LHR-SYD non-stop, or DXB-AKL, would be much more logical.
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A couple of examples:
The TG service nonstop JFK/BKK: Gone.
SQ JFK/SIN nonstop: Gone.
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True, and FCO-SYD is significantly longer than even those. But the article refers to EK getting some type of new generation aircraft.