Qantas Project Sunrise goes ahead, 12 new A350-1000s ordered

[anat0l]

Nice sentiment but doubtful. I bet Hudson is on it.

Wouldn't doubt for a second that Hudson will be on. She can settle for J - plenty of seats and likely where most of the press are going to be (heck, and the "influencers").

That would be a change. Just a few months ago they were talking about Project Sunrise aircraft allowing them to fly SYD-LHR via the Arctic to avoid the ME airspace!

What would be the likely flight route of SYD-LHR non-stop? Assuming both scenarios, i.e. whether the war is still on or has already stopped?

 

[transpactraveller]

What would be the likely flight route of SYD-LHR non-stop? Assuming both scenarios, i.e. whether the war is still on or has already stopped?

They were talking about seasonal routing that would change based on tail-winds.

This is what Hudson said last year:

“Our pilots are doing lots of flight planning for that flight. They’ve got over 12 months’ worth of wind data and are doing lots of flight-planning simulations. Don’t just assume that you have to fly west [from Sydney to London] all the time – there will be other routes that we can take.”

“At some times of the year, the fastest way to get from Sydney to London will be over Japan and over the North Pole and down the other side because of the wind direction.”

In the same interview she said they wouldn't start any of the Sunrise flights until they had 3 aircraft, and they'd be deploying the first aircraft on flights to New Zealand for crew training.