How about we just call it the magic carpet route?!
I believe that's already been picked up by the media somewhere.
Let's not forget that the "parody" that someone made (similar to the bleeding kangaroo red triangle that someone made) replaced the jumping kangaroo with a camel. We also had a bit of a healthy (enough) debate about that one. I'm sure someone is going to start cross-breeding kangaroos, camels and falcons pretty soon.
If they are going to call it the Oil Route, then I'd like to see Qantas get in on some fuel on the cheap, with a resulting significant drop in YQ. Certainly
no one - not even a customer of either airline - is going to benefit via oil in any significant way through this tie up, and certainly oil is not going to get any lift in image through this tie up, so calling it the Oil Route may not be irreverent but it will certainly be irrelevant.
I would've thought they would just keep calling it the Kangaroo route. They did it several years ago when it passed through the region; why all of the sudden has the definition been fixated?
In fact, when one really thinks about it,
who really cares what they call it? Certainly, in many discussions, even on AFF, hardly anyone references the route by its name, instead simply addressing it by the stopover point (e.g. "via..."). Except possibly for the recent media, it is rarely referenced as such, and much less so marketed as such (especially by the airlines).
Libya and Egypt have been part of the Kangaroo route too although neither are Commonwealth countries.
. It's been a long time coming 
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