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

[transpactraveller]

Yeah unless there's been a secret change, they've always said the first route would be Sydney-London

 

[Mwenenzi]

QF newsroom 03 Jun 2026 -- QANTAS' PROJECT SUNRISE A350-1000ULR COMPLETES MAIDEN TEST FLIGHT

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Qantas will announce the first Project Sunrise route and timing of its inaugural commercial services later this month.

 

[Doctore1003]

Would love to be in F on the inaugural flight

 

[SYD]

Would love to be in F on the inaugural flight

Keep an eye out for SYD-AKL or whatever the first revenue flight ends up being. Maybe even a couple of SYD<->MEL hops if we’re lucky.

 

[mviy]

Would love to get a J/F classic reward return to LHR on Sunrise.

 

[LionKing]

Keep an eye out for SYD-AKL or whatever the first revenue flight ends up being. Maybe even a couple of SYD<->MEL hops if we’re lucky.

I hope it will be SYD-AKL-MEL-AKL-SYD routing, which I think eventually Sunrise aircraft need to test the gates and ground handling at MEL if they wanted to do MEL-LON.