London in late 2025. In the same month, Qantas agreed terms to purchase Alliance Airlines. The deal is currently subjected to regulatory and shareholder approval. In August 2022, Qantas Airways announced plans to compete in June 2023 with Air New Zealand on the non-stop Auckland—New York route, which Qantas would originate in Sydney before converting the flight in 2025 to a non-stop Sydney—New York route as part of Project Sunrise, through which Qantas aims to eliminate the "tyranny of distance" by developing non-stop flight routes connecting Australian cities to New York City, and also to London. In February 2023, Qantas announced soaring profits for the second half of 2022, after experiencing losses due to Covid. Destinations Qantas operates flightseeing charters to Antarctica on behalf of Croydon Travel. It first flew Antarctic flightseeing trips in 1977. They were suspended for a number of years due to the crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 on Mount Erebus in 1979. Qantas restarted the flights in 1994. Although these flights do not touch down, they require specific polar operations and crew training due to factors like sector whiteout, which contributed to the 1979 Air New Zealand disaster. With Flights 7 and 8 – a non-stop service between Sydney and Dallas/Fort Worth operated by the Airbus A380 – commencing on 29 September 2014, Qantas operated the world's longest passenger flight on the world's largest passenger aircraft. This was overtaken on 1 March 2016 by Emirates' new Auckland-Dubai service. After it ordered Boeing 787 aircraft, Qantas announced an intention to launch non-stop flights between Australia and the United Kingdom during March 2018 from Perth to London. The inaugural flight left Perth on 24 March. On 19 March 2020, Qantas confirmed it would suspend all international flights and about 60% of domestic flights from the end of March until at least 31 May 2020 following expanded government travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Codeshare agreements , Qantas had codeshare agreements with the following airlines: Aircalin Air France Air New Zealand Air Niugini Airnorth Air Tahiti Nui Air Vanuatu Alaska Airlines American Airlines Asiana Airlines Bangkok Airways British Airways Cathay Pacific China Airlines China Eastern Airlines China Southern Airlines El Al Emirates Fiji Airways Finnair Indigo ITA Airways Japan Airlines Jetstar Jetstar Asia Jetstar Japan Jetstar Pacific KLM LATAM Chile Solomon Airlines SriLankan Airlines Vietnam Airlines WestJet Joint ventures In addition to the above codeshares, Qantas