“A year of operating this route shows that a hub in WA connecting Australia to the world works really well,” he said.
The service is also turning Perth into a true western hub. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce told this morning’s Leadership Matters breakfast, hosted by The West Australian this morning the route had been a runaway success for the airline and WA.īY THE NUMBERS: How many bottles of wine have been served, what’s the speed record, where are the passengers from and why is everyone doing yoga? See the video above for the answers. International passengers accounted for a higher share of passengers inbound, with 31 per cent from Britain. “In total, LHR-PER flight route passengers are estimated to have spent $101.4 million in Western Australia, of which $82.1 million was spent in Perth, $17.0 million in the rest of WA, and a further $2.3 million spent at Perth Airport by transit passengers,” the Deloitte report said.Īustralians accounted for 69 per cent of passengers on the outbound flight, with 23 per cent from Britain. The flight has contributed to an increase of $101 million spending by international visitors and 601 full-time jobs in WA.Īccording to Deloitte Access Economics, which was commissioned to do an analysis, international passengers stayed an average of 22.2 nights in Perth and 5.9 nights in the rest of WA, while interstate passengers tended to spend fewer nights in Perth but more nights in the rest of WA.
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It was dubbed mission impossible - how to convince passengers to fly 17.5 hours nonstop from Perth to London and love the experience.īut the only “Mission: Impossible” in Qantas’ nonstop service is the Tom Cruise movie, which has become the most popular flick on a flight that has smashed records for speed, reliability and popularity.Ī report card released on the first anniversary of the groundbreaking service also reveals one man stayed in his business-class suite for the entire journey without a toilet break, and that seat 56F holds the record for the most in-flight entertainment watched, 9134 hours.Īny way you slice and dice it, the service is the airline’s stand-out performer with a load factor at a high of 94 per cent, 14 points above the average, and reliability at 99.5 per cent with only four flights cancelled, all because of technical issues. The West Australian 26 March 2019 - by Geoffrey Thomas The staggering statistics behind Qantas’ first year of its Perth to London serviceĪ report on the first anniversary of Qantas’ groundbreaking non-stop flight between Perth and London has unearthed some interesting stats.
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