Rw774477 From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 1029 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 791 times:
PerthGloryFan From Australia, joined Oct 2000, 751 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 733 times:
Coachman,
QF's Indian Ocean services to JNB are known as the Wallaby Route. i.e., a long hop but not as long a hop as the Kangaroo Route.
In the olden days (Connies & later 707s) the Kangaroo Route had stops such as:
SYD-Darwin-SIN
SYD-Brisbane-Darwin -SIN
SYD-PER-CGK-SIN
then
SIN-KUL-Colombo-BOM-Teheran-Istanbul/Athens
SIN-BKK-Calcutta/New Delhi-Karachi-Cairo
then
Istanbul-Athens-London
Athens-London
Cairo-Rome-London or Rome-Frankfurt-London
For a while later routings included SYD-PER-Colombo-Karachi-etc.
Don't forget QF was a RTW airline then so continuing westwards it was London-NY-SFO-HNL-Nandi-SYD.
When QF's N. Am HQ moved from SFO to Tuscon and LAX became the Pacific terminus the westward RTW route became London-Bermuda-MEX-Acapulco-Papeete-AKL-SYD.
The Coachman From Australia, joined Apr 2001, 1411 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 726 times:
PGF,
I knew it was the Wallaby route, I was just saying, the way things were going, then people would be adding LHR-JNB-SYD as part of the Kangaroo route, which is obviously isn't.
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