Jet packed with 330 peppermint tea bags

The 17-hour flight is more than three times as fast as the earliest flights between the UK and Australia, which involved six stops on the way

But that’s still enough time to watch eight Star Wars or Harry Potter films, or see Crocodile Dundee ten times

More than 21,000 items were piled on to the aircraft, including 330 peppermint tea bags and hundreds of chocolate biscuits

The flight crew was led by Captain Lisa Norman and Captain Jeff Foote

The revamped Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner that made the flight has 42 business class flat-bed seats, 28 premium economy seats and 166 economy seats