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Airbus has conducted the first test flight for the A350-1000ULR, a special variant made on the request of Qantas. The aircraft will eventually be able to fly nonstop for up to 22 hours.
Qantas is resuming operations on the Delhi-Melbourne Nonstop as of next week. Here are the details of the return of this seasonal flight.
Qantas has announced the addition of a flight between Bengaluru and Sydney effective September 2022, making it the third flight from the airline between the two countries.
Qantas is opening up bookings for a second direct flight between Australia and India. Many ifs and buts though. Here are the details.
Qantas is opening up bookings for a direct flight between Australia and India, the first to be operated by Qantas since 2009. Many ifs and buts though. Here are the details.
Qantas is the first airline to have spoken up about the need to have a vaccine in the coming future to get on a Qantas international flight, and they expect other airlines to join them in what could become a global phenomenon. Here is Alan Joyce, Qantas CEO, telling us the obvious.
Qantas is upping their preparation for the Project Sunrise flights that will take off in a few years. For this, they are repurposing the delivery flights of their aircraft and flying it in from New York/ London to Sydney directly to research how a human would react on 20 hours on an aircraft.
Boeing and Airbus, both competing for the airframe for the world’s longest flight, have turned in their bids for the equipment that can fly between London and Sydney. But there are interesting developments at both airframe makers, which may determine the fate of who will fly the longest flight eventually.
Airbus has confirmed that both A350 variants the A350-900 and A350-1000 can be modified to have enough range to operate the world’s longest routes under Qantas’ Project Sunrise, which should be a 21-hour long flight.
A few weeks earlier, a letter written by a 10-year-old CEO of Australia’s newest airline Oceania Express went viral. A meeting between Qantas and Oceania Express CEOs happened this week.
A 10-year-old kid, Alex Jacquot from Australia writes an adorable letter to Qantas CEO, Alan Joyce to seek his advice to start his own airline, Oceania Express.
