This took me by surprise when I heard this news last night. Qantas has announced that it will stop flying from Sydney to San Francisco in May. Instead it will send one of it’s 747s from Sydney to Dallas and returning via Brisbane. I didn’t actually think any air plane could fly that far. But the 747 long range plane can do the 16 hour flight. They say that the change was better to meet more American Airlines flights to other cities in the US. Soon we will be able to take Qantas flight numbers to a holw lot of places like Cleveland Ohio, on AA aircraft. It will be sad not being able to fly directly in to San Francisco anymore. Perhaps I should take one more trip there before May.
This photo was taken at San Francisco International Airport in June 2009.
