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Fans turned out in record numbers at Perth Stadium for the highly anticipated <keyword id="20534757" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Border-Gavaskar-Trophy" source="keywords">Border-Gavaskar Trophy</keyword> series opener, with the single highest attendance for a day of Test cricket in Perth recorded on days one and two. The <keyword id="24166546" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Perth-Test-attendance" source="keywords">Perth Test attendance</keyword> saw a remarkable 63% increase year-on-year. Additionally, average viewing audiences were up by 30% year-on-year, reflecting the immense interest in the match, as the data provided by <keyword id="19897940" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Cricket-Australia" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Cricket Australia" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Cricket Australia">Cricket Australia</keyword>. Cricket Australia also reported record engagement across their digital channels, highlighting the widespread excitement and engagement with the event both at the stadium and across Australia. Day one and two at Perth Stadium set records for attendance at any Test Match in Perth, with 31,302 and 32,368 going through the gates respectively. The total attendance was 96,463, the second-highest total attendance ever recorded in Perth and the highest at Perth Stadium. The Perth Scorchers also achieved an attendance record at their Weber WBBL match which was held at the WACA Ground on the evening of day two of the West Test which meant that more than 100,000 people attended the cricket over the four days. Ticket sales for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series are more than 2.5 times higher than for the 2018-19 India tour and public tickets are currently exhausted for day one at The Gabba in Brisbane, according to Cricket Australia. Big crowds are also forecast in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney with fans encouraged to buy their tickets as soon as possible. The Perth Test dominated TV ratings on each of the first three days, with seven sessions averaging more than 1 million viewers across all platforms (Seven, 7plus Sport, Foxtel, Foxtel Go, Foxtel Now and Kayo Sports), including 1.6m nationally for the third session of Day 1. Daily average viewing audiences increased 30% on last season's Perth Test against Pakistan across the first three days. This was the first time fans were able to stream Test cricket on 7plus Sport in addition to Kayo Sports, Foxtel Go and Foxtel Now. Cricket Australia digital channels saw a surge in engagement, with 2.7 million people from within Australia visiting cricket.com.au and the Cricket Australia Live app across the Test - and 8.4 million users globally. Records were also broken from videos watched on cricket.com.au and the Cricket Australia Live app, with views from Australian users up 30% compared with the first Test of last summer. The vast global reach of the series was also evident with 259 million video views across Cricket Australia's social media channels during the Test match. SEE ALSO:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/oneplus-open-oxygenos-15-update-now-rolling-out-with-flux-themes-improved-ai-features-and-more/articleshow/115657313.cms" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/oneplus-open-oxygenos-15-update-now-rolling-out-with-flux-themes-improved-ai-features-and-more/articleshow/115657313.cms" target="_blank">OnePlus Open OxygenOS 15 update now rolling out with Flux Themes, improved AI features and more</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/microsofts-ai-powered-recall-feature-is-now-rolling-out-to-copilot-pcs/articleshow/115654136.cms" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/microsofts-ai-powered-recall-feature-is-now-rolling-out-to-copilot-pcs/articleshow/115654136.cms" target="_blank">Microsoft’s AI-powered Recall feature is now rolling out to Copilot+ PCs</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/telecom/news/jio-airtel-and-vi-lost-nearly-11-million-subscribers-in-september-2024/articleshow/115565541.cms" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/telecom/news/jio-airtel-and-vi-lost-nearly-11-million-subscribers-in-september-2024/articleshow/115565541.cms" target="_blank">Jio, Airtel and Vi lost nearly 11 million subscribers in September 2024</a>

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<keyword id="5629" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Sydney">Sydney</keyword>: <keyword id="6355478" type="COUNTRY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Australia">Australia</keyword> will play four Tests against India and one-day and Twenty20 series against <keyword id="6355117" type="COUNTRY" weightage="40" keywordseo="South-Africa">South Africa</keyword>, England and India ahead of hosting next year's World Cup. 
 Australia will get their Test series against India under way in <keyword id="73462" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Brisbane">Brisbane</keyword> at the start of December with further Tests in <keyword id="11008" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Adelaide">Adelaide</keyword>, Melbourne and Sydney 
 Australia's international season will start with a T20 series against South <keyword id="12925" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="40" keywordseo="Africa">Africa</keyword> in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. This will be followed by five ODIs played in <keyword id="84362" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Perth">Perth</keyword> on two days, followed by Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney 
 Following the India Test series, Australia will play England and India in an one-day tri-series from January 16-February 1 ahead of the World Cup, which is staged in Australia and <keyword id="22501" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="New-Zealand">New Zealand</keyword> and begins on February 14. 
 
"The 2014-15 schedule looks very different to previous summers due in large part to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 that we are co-hosting with New Zealand for the first time in 23 years," Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland said. 
 Reacting to the schedule, ECB chief David Collier released a statement where he said, "Following our seven-match ODI series in <keyword id="6355572" type="COUNTRY" weightage="40" keywordseo="Sri-Lanka">Sri Lanka</keyword> before Christmas, this tour will provide further excellent preparation for the England team prior to the ICC Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. We look forward to an exciting and competitive series against two of the world's best teams in this format of the game and thank both Cricket Australia and <keyword id="6354756" type="CITY" weightage="40" keywordseo="BCCI">BCCI</keyword> (Board of Control for Cricket in India) for their support in agreeing this schedule." 
 
There was some controversy regarding the schedule when it was decided that the annual Australia Day match, normally played in Adelaide, was shifted to Sydney this summer. However, Sutherland said that the packed nature of the schedule and the fact that only four Tests were been played this summer compared to five or six meant some logistical challenges in the programmers. 
 
The Adelaide Oval has been redeveloped and Sutherland said that there are exciting times ahead for the venue. "The new ground was partly completed last summer and we saw the potential of it this winter with football underway, and we’re very excited about the prospects of holding international cricket at the Adelaide Oval. I am sure fans from Adelaide but also, as traditionally, fans from all over the country will flock to what will be a big summer of cricket there." 
 
The other change in the schedule will see Perth miss out on a Test match due to concerns regarding its ground facilities and size. Last September, speaking to ESPNcricinfo, Sutherland had said, "Though a traditional Test match venue with a proud history, the WACA ground has the smallest capacity of the five mainland Test venues and has historically attracted lower attendances. The WACA has been working hard to improve the facilities for its fans but it still requires significant improvements." 
 
Full 2014/15 summer schedule 
 
Australia v South Africa 
 
November 5: 1st T20I, Adelaide 
 
November 7: 2nd T20I, Melbourne 
 
November 9: 3rd T20I, Stadium Australia, Sydney 
 
November 14: 1st ODI, Perth 
 
November 16: 2nd ODI, Perth 
 
November 19: 3rd ODI, Manuka Oval, Canberra 
 
November 21: 4th ODI, Melbourne 
 
November 23: 5th ODI, Sydney 
 
Australia v India schedule 
 
November 24-25: 2-day tour match, Gliderol stadium, Glenelg 
 
November 28-29: 2-day tour match, Adelaide 
 
December 4-8: 1st Test, Brisbane 
 
December 12-16: 2nd Test, Adelaide 
 
December 26-30: 3rd Test, Melbourne 
 
January 3-7: 4th Test, Sydney 
 
Australia-India-England tri-series 
 
January 16: Australia v India, Melbourne 
 
January 18: Australia v England, Sydney 
 
January 20: England v India, Brisbane 
 
January 23: Australia v England, Hobart 
 
January 26: Australia v India, Sydney 
 
January 30: England v India, Perth 
 
February 1: Final, Perth

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Qantas</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/qantas">Qantas</a> is testing the new world's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/longest-flight-in-the-world-singapore-airlines-business-class-review-2018-10">longest flight,</a> New York to Sydney, on Friday. Business Insider will be on board and reporting from the test flight.</li><li>The flight, at nearly 10,000 miles and 20 hours long, presents a number of potential challenges, including how to keep passengers comfortable, and how to keep pilots and cabin crew rested and alert.</li><li>Qantas has said it hopes to launch the route, and a direct between Sydney and London, by 2022.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>The Australian airline Qantas is preparing to run its first nonstop test flight from New York City to Sydney, Australia, a route that no airline has been able to do without stopping. At 20 hours, it will be the world's longest flight, surpassing Singapore Airlines' nonstop flight to New York's Newark airport.Business Insider will be on board the New York-to-Sydney test flight dubbed "Project Sunrise," and reporting from the air.Qantas also plans to test a nonstop flight from London to Sydney in the coming months. That route would be about 500 miles longer, adding up to an hour of flight time.Airplanes and airlines are more technically advanced today than ever before, with better fuel efficiency, longer ranges, and computer-aided logistical planning. But as the duration of some flights get longer, the question is whether passengers and flight crews can tolerate more hours in the air without a layover to break things up.Right now, a commercially viable direct flight between Sydney and New York or London isn't possible. No commercial aircraft has the range to fly the nearly 10,000 miles with a full passenger and cargo load.Two planes currently in development from Airbus and Boeing will have that capability - Qantas has said that it will decide by the end of 2019 which one it will use, and expects to start commercial service as early as 2022.For the test flight, the airline is using a brand-new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. It's taking delivery of the jet from Boeing's factory in Seattle, and then flying it to New York to position for the trial run. To give the plane the range required for the nonstop, Qantas will only have about 50 people on board, including this reporter.The test flight will serve as a data-gathering mission for Qantas, with a team of researchers from Sydney University on board and on the ground monitoring passengers' "sleep patterns, food and beverage consumption, lighting, physical movement, and in-flight entertainment [engagement] to assess impact on health, well-being, and body clock," the airline said.Scientists from Monash University will also work with the pilots to monitor "crew melatonin levels before, during and after the flights." Pilots will also "wear an EEG (electroencephalogram) device that tracks brain wave patterns and monitors alertness."<h2>The challenges of flying for 20 straight hours</h2>While the technological component will be possible once Boeing and Airbus complete their ultra-long-haul jets, the toll on the human body and brain is a legitimate concern.Nearly 20 hours in the air is a long time, particularly when you add time spent waiting for boarding to finish, taxiing, and waiting for runways. Even the best plane-sleepers can have trouble feeling rested, and landing 15 time zones away from the departure city can be disorienting. Meanwhile, the side-effects of dry cabin air and the mild, usually harmless hypoxia that comes from being in a pressurized airplane cabin - dry skin, headaches, dehydration - will likely be amplified by the longer flight time.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-comfort-plus-flight-review-extra-legroom-iceland-2019-10">I flew in Delta's extra-legroom seats to Iceland, and the flight was fine, but the extra space comes with a catch</a>That's aside from the perennial concern about blood clots in leg tissue - known as deep-vein thrombosis - that can form after long periods of sitting still as blood pools in the lower extremities. While this is a risk on shorter flights as well, more time in the air without moving around can prove to be problematic.Jet lag, of course, is also an issue. While that would exist regardless of flight route - 15 time zones is a lot to cross - symptoms can be exacerbated by the discomfort of an ultra-long-haul flight.There are also concerns for the crew. Pilots and cabin crew are prohibited from working past a certain number of hours, meaning Qantas will need to bring extra crew members to allow pilots and flight attendants to rest. However, the quality of rest - there are typically small crew quarters with beds hidden from passenger view - can be sub-par.Qantas would need permission from Australia's aviation regulator in order to fly the route, as cabin crew will need to be on-duty for more than 20 hours - even with extra crew on board to facilitate rest periods - and the airline will need a new deal with pilots.<h2>The upsides of a nonstop can make the challenges worth overcoming.</h2>But there are also numerous potential upsides.Flying from New York to Sydney currently takes nearly 24 hours in the best-case, including one stop, although flight times can also reach 40 hours with a longer layover. Qantas currently flies the route with an approximately 90-minute stop in Los Angeles.Shaving four or five hours off that flight time can be crucial for business travelers who need to maximize time on the ground. Not having to stop and change planes could prove to be useful for passengers.Since Qantas will likely price the flights for business travelers whose companies are willing to pay a premium to save a few hours, there's a lot of profit potential. Plus, modern long-haul planes, which are up to 20% more fuel efficient than previous generations, can help keep costs down.There's already precedent for the upsides. Singapore Airlines re-launched its direct flight to New York in 2018 - it's currently the world's longest flight - and has seen a positive response. The flight, which otherwise took at least 21 hours with a stop, is scheduled at 18-and-a-half hours direct.See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-737-history-photos-airlines-2019-9">Boeing 737 timeline: From the early days to the grounding of the 737 Max after 2 fatal crashes that killed 346 people 5 months apart</a>The airline has operated ultra-long-haul flights fore more than 10 years, even before relaunching the New York flight, and has found that passengers simply prefer to save time."The convenience of bypassing intermediate points, as well as the opportunity for a longer window of uninterrupted sleep are two of the principal benefits these flights deliver," a spokesperson for the airline said. "Many of our passengers <keyword id="6354692" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Travel">travel</keyword> between the U.S. and Singapore (or beyond) one or more times per month, so the time savings becomes a critical business tool."Jade Lynch, the head of marketing for FCM Travel Solutions Asia, is currently based in Singapore but frequently travels back to New York, where she lived previously (disclosure: Jade is a friend of mine). She's found the non-stop flight indispensable."The added time of stopping somewhere and breaking the journey up just isn't worth it to me," she said. "I get more time on the ground when I fly direct, and when I factor in the time difference and losing time when travelling particularly between New York and Singapore, it seems like a connection is time wasted."Singapore flies an Airbus A350-900ULR on the route, outfitted with only business class and premium economy seats - no cramped seating in regular coach. Qantas has not announced whether it plans to configure its planes similarly on the long-haul route.Qantas' longest route - nonstop between London and Perth, which runs about 17 hours - has also seen positive response since launching in 2018. Flights are 94% full on average, with more than 155,000 passengers flying the route in its first year."There were a lot of expectations around this flight, both within Qantas and the broader community, and frankly it's exceeded them," said Alan Joyce, Qantas' CEO.<h2>Will it actually happen?</h2>Qantas has been teasing the nonstop flights for years, and is clearly excited about the prospect. Plus, Singapore's success suggests that Qantas can expect similar outcomes.However, the challenges are certainly formidable. The findings of the first test flights should provide useful information about how to make sure that passengers are comfortable - even though the mostly-empty cabin will not perfectly replicate real-world conditions - and how pilots and crew can remain rested and alert enough to perform the flights. Based on the results, Qantas can begin to work on the regulatory and labor hurdles.Of course, economics remain a challenge as well. Fluctuating fuel prices and environmental concerns will also play a role, along with customer response.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/concorde-supersonic-jet-history-2018-10">The Concorde made its final flight 16 years ago and supersonic air travel has yet to recover - here's a look back at its awesome history</a>Similarly, delays in aircraft development may force Qantas to push its hopeful launch date further back. The date of entry into service of Boeing's 777X aircraft is uncertain. Qantas has also said that it will only launch the flights if it can get a favorable price for the planes, regardless of whether it goes with the Boeing or Airbus option."There's plenty of enthusiasm for Sunrise, but it's not a foregone conclusion," Joyce said in an August statement announcing the test flights. "This is ultimately a business decision and the economics have to stack up." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nurburgring-most-dangerous-race-track-2019-9">Why the Nürburgring is the world's most dangerous race track</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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