You can add Sydney to that list too. SQ has 5 flights a day from Sydney to Singapore in its standing schedule. Doesn't mean the airline is as good as it used to be, though, nor that its key Star Alliance partners are worth the pain of have enduring a connection with. (Looking at you, Lufthansa gr...

Not sure Qantas would expect any of its Melbourne flyers to transit through Sydney to join a project sunrise flight. Melbourne already has one-stop QF flights to Europe via Perth (notwithstanding current re-routing of northbound LHR and CDG flights) and via Singapore, and one stop to almost anywa...

The timetable maths doesn't add up. If it leaves Sydney early in the afternoon it'd arrive in the middle of Heathrow's night curfew. The correct numbers are closer to: Sydney departure early evening in northern summer and around 10pm in northern winter in order to arrive in the 5 - 6am slot inten...

PE with a row of 8 would be a significant downgrade from the space in both the A380 and B787, were this true. 

they did that last year in Auckland with Emirates....but at Sydney's T1 the Emirates' lounge is so far away from nearly all of Qantas's usual gates