They're already available to book from mid June next year.

If these flights were 20% cheaper than going via Singapore or Dubai, I'd go through Singapore or Dubai 7 days a week. Absolute lunacy to spend 20+ hours on a plane by choice. You're going that far anyway, why pay more and suffer more for an extra hour or 2 on the ground... it makes zero sense...

This is perhaps one of only 2 airport lounges I have ever been to where it manages to be significantly worse than just hanging out in a crowded airport terminal. The other being the Marhaba Lounge in Manila...

Qantas is only good for dogs more like. The food especially. Actually scrap that, my dog would turn her nose up at the "pesto chicken ciabatta" doughy mush they had the cheek to call "lunch" on my flight from Sydney to Melbourne yesterday.

Came through here last week. Seamless trip through security, unlike the debacle that is Qantas Terminal 1. Didn't have to take laptop out (why is that still a thing with Qantas), really smooth, really quick, priority lane wasnt busier than the other lane as it frequently is with Qantas and was on...