{"id":21106,"date":"2022-05-02T07:06:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T07:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=21106"},"modified":"2022-05-02T07:06:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T07:06:47","slug":"qantas-promises-direct-flights-from-sydney-to-london-and-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/05\/02\/qantas-promises-direct-flights-from-sydney-to-london-and-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas promises direct flights from Sydney to London and New York"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Qantas has announced it will begin operating non-stop flights from Sydney to London and New York from 2025.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Australia’s national carrier said it had purchased a new fleet of Airbus A350-1000 jets capable of direct flights to any city in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The first Sydney-London flights will depart in late 2025 and take about 20 hours, making them the world’s longest passenger flights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The route, launched in 1947, once took 58 hours and seven stops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“The A350 and ‘Project Sunrise’ will make any city just one flight away from Australia,” chief executive Alan Joyce said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“It’s the last frontier and the final fix for the tyranny of distance.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Qantas has been working on the project for about five years, but implementation has been delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2018 it began offering direct 17-hour direct flights between London and Perth in Western Australia, and in 2019 it conducted a series of test flights from the east coast to the UK and New York.<\/p>\n

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The new fleet of 12 planes will begin arriving in 2025, with the order to be completed by 2028.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Each plane will be able to carry 238 passengers and seats will be roomier than usual, Qantas says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Travellers will also be able to access a “wellbeing zone” in the centre of the plane – with a self-service snack bar and space for stretching and movement – to combat the effects of spending 20 hours in the air.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Qantas has announced it will begin operating non-stop flights from Sydney to London and New York from 2025. Australia’s national carrier said it had purchased a new fleet of Airbus A350-1000 jets capable of direct flights to any city in the world. The first Sydney-London flights will depart in late 2025 and take about 20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,12],"tags":[4836,6217,3347,9331,8982,5222,5200,11355,9463,3684,12287,990,11973,5485,6830,3345,5470,3346,9091,12605,3954,36],"class_list":["post-21106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","category-world-news","tag-access","tag-airbus","tag-australia","tag-city","tag-combat","tag-covid","tag-covid-19","tag-flight","tag-jets","tag-london","tag-movement","tag-new-york","tag-one","tag-pandemic","tag-plane","tag-qantas-airways","tag-space","tag-sydney","tag-travellers","tag-uk","tag-will","tag-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}