I've flown the Perth London nonstop route and purely personally as a non scientific sample of 1 I prefer a break mid journey. (Quite aside from the break flying over to Perth from the east)

I am sure there is a market for this service from the east coast. I'm not it, and I wouldn't pay the proposed 20% premium to do it.

I've done other long flights like the transpolar route Australia to south America and these long flights are hard.

Quantas and Airbus pages for the Airbus A350-1000ULR

https://www.qantas.com/en-vu/onboard/fleet/a350

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/stories/2026-06-countdown...

Leave 9am Sydney arrive 10pm London (8pm in northern hemisphere winter)