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

[jb747]

They'd have to pay me. I couldn't think of anything more horrible.

 

[moa999]

They'd have to pay me

I assume you mean as a pax.. given Qantas used to pay you.

Equally guessing the A350XLR may well be popular with many pilots. Say 24hr block time, would be 18 return trips a year to hit the (afaik) 900hr limit.
With a say 48hr rest at the other end, so 96hr (4-day) trip, you're only away from home 72 days a year.

Certainly seems more attractive than getting the hours 1-2hrs at a times domestically.

 

[Quickstatus]

Equally guessing the A350XLR may well be popular with many pilots.

But on the other hand re Project Sunrise, no much hands on flying and takeoff landing practice
I would imagine most of it would be quite boring looking at the dials.
And then only 2 destinations maybe for the rest of your career

Maybe the A350XLR routes might be a bit more variety

 

[elanshin]

But on the other hand re Project Sunrise, no much hands on flying and takeoff landing practice
I would imagine most of it would be quite boring looking at the dials.
And then only 2 destinations maybe for the rest of your career

Maybe the A350XLR routes might be a bit more variety

I havr to imagine if you're a PS qualified pilot, when the regular a350 fleet joins, you could also bid for those flights. Those would go to a lot more destinations.

 

[SYD]

I havr to imagine if you're a PS qualified pilot, when the regular a350 fleet joins, you could also bid for those flights. Those would go to a lot more destinations.

Even the PS birds will be doing other things. Albeit still LR. eg MEL-DFW, PER-LHR.

 

[Quickstatus]

Airbus says total distance 12460NM

 

[SYD]

Video on the QF Insta page also with “24:24”.

Pretty amazing but at least commercial flights will be ~2 hrs less!

God, just imagine sitting next to a kid asking “are we there yet?”

 

[transpactraveller]

FlightRadar24 posted that it took 24:23 but obviously Airbus and QF wanted it to be 24:24

https://twitter.com/x/status/2082011609015124033

 

[SYD]

FlightRadar24 posted that it took 24:23 but obviously Airbus and QF wanted it to be 24:24

https://twitter.com/x/status/2082011609015124033

Someone else posted that it was actually slightly more. But gees, who’s going to quibble!

 

[Scarlett]

Is QF going to have to fight Airbus for the final resting place of that airframe in 30 years time?
Longreach at the QF Founders Museum, or TLS at

 

[transpactraveller]

Video of the landing in TLS

Dropbox

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and video of the flypast prior to landing

https://twitter.com/x/status/2082020295116804295