As Early As 5am: Are These Australia's 'Worst' Long

Between September and December , Australia will have eight scheduled long-haul passenger routes that will lift off between 05:00 and 07:00 local time. Of course, whether they're really the 'worst' of such flights is entirely subjective. Some may like them because of the ease of sleeping, as far as is possible on an aircraft, at least in economy class.

In this article, 'long-haul' is taken to mean any flights that cover at least 3,000 statute miles (2,607 nautical miles, 4,828 km) each way. This is the same cutoff point that United Airlines uses . Note that Darwin's new longest route, which is China Southern to Guangzhou, does not feature. Aeroroutes shows the service, which begins in December, will leave the Northern Territory at 07:30, which is too late and 9% too sho