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

[RooFlyer]

Hope this makes sense

Perfect sense, thanks. Except for the issues illustrated by @SYD , I would have said that the seat manufacturers should know, when a customer say, requests a custom item, whether it’s going to be able to be certified or not.

 

[leesionn]

Perfect sense, thanks. Except for the issues illustrated by @SYD , I would have said that the seat manufacturers should know, when a customer say, requests a custom item, whether it’s going to be able to be certified or not.

I think it's really difficult to predict - I agree that they probably should have some certainty but there can be uncertainty in the surrounding cabin environment - maybe currently they don't know what the galley setup is, the internal wiring etc? If they don't, maybe it would be a good practice to collaborate with whatever team does the fitouts of the entire cabin to ensure they can suggest features that are most likely to be certified? Who knows

 

[dajop]

They can operate 2 flights to the same port with 5 aircraft, depending on the timings.
For a period during the DXB stopover, they had the daily MEL-DXB-LHR and daily SYD-DXB-LHR each using 3 aircraft, then a retime to the MEL flight allowed that to go to 5 aircraft with the 6th going to DFW.

Yeh I remember that. Obviously sunrise would have shorter mileage to JFK and cut out 4 stops in the rotation (SYD-LHR-SYD-JFK-SYD will take less time than MEL-DXB-LHR-DXB-SYD-DXB-LHR-DXB-MEL). I guess it all depends on chosen (or given slot constraints, available) departure time out LHR.