All smiles: Qantas crew celebrate ... The Boeing 787-9 with 49 people on board took 19 hours and 16 minutes to fly from New York to Sydney, a 16,200-km (10,066-mile) route. Next month, the company ...

Back in October, I flew on a nearly 20-hour flight from New York to Sydney with Qantas Airways ... The test flights were aboard a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner that only had about 40 passengers and ...

And 166 Economy class seats. Looks like a great place to spend a 17-hour flight. More from Transportation Following is a transcript of the video. Watch Qantas’ first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner ...

and the Sydney-London flight is about 500 miles longer. Qantas is scheduled to receive three new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft this fall - one each in October, November, and December.