so just AU-EU is waiting for A380, i presume QF will be first.

ive only used North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica. ive heard Oceania, but ive never heard combinations used as continents, or Australasia. ive only heard combinations like Eurasia perhaps used as subcontinents.

Much of NZ is on a different tectonic plate to Australia, and is considered by geologists a separate mini-continent (most of which is underwater).

Oceania is a region not a continent.

forgot about that service (started last year) and also the IR one to CCS :o

A380 will not fly nonstop between AU-EU, at least not if airline wants a reasonable load of pax & cargo.

AFAIK there is no a/c yet that can fly nonstop LHR-Oz with full load in both directions. From closer parts of europe to/from PER may be possible already, but perhaps not commercially viable.

Kiwi, in Canada (for example) "Oceania" is the 7th continent.

hasnt QF been looking at nonstop to LHR? hmm, this is all i find doing a quick search.. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busine..._qantas11.html

Yes QF has been looking at it, but no a/c exists (or even on the drawing board) that meets it's needs.

According to Wikipedia:

"New Zealand is part of Zealandia, a continent nearly half the size of Australia that is otherwise almost completely submerged. About 25 million years ago, a shift in plate tectonic movements began to pull Zealandia apart forcefully, with this now being most evident along the Alpine Fault and in the highly active Taupo volcanic zone."

Definitely don't remember learning that in school.

ATH-PER is easily doable. It could make sense for QF to try that one (with co-ordinated MEL and SYD connections) when they get a spare 787/350.