Singapore has long been Qantas' offshore international hub, where long haul traffic from Australian capital cities was fed into its European links. Only recently has Qantas focused on Asia as an end market and not a connection point on the "kangaroo route". The change was accelerated by the Qantas-Emirates partnership which prompted Qantas to move its European stopover hub from Asia to the Middle East. With the European flights redirected, Qantas had to reposition itself in Asia.