{"id":821105,"date":"2026-07-24T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821105\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:28:13","slug":"qantas-non-stop-london-flights-on-project-sunrise-wont-fly-out-of-melbourne-any-time-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821105\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas non-stop London flights on Project Sunrise won\u2019t fly out of Melbourne any time soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qantas cannot say when passengers will be able to fly non-stop between Melbourne and London as part of its Project Sunrise ultra-long-haul plan, even as the first test flight of new aircraft from the Airbus factory in France touched down at Tullamarine on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the airline will base the first six of its 12 custom-built <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/transport\/qantas-to-reach-for-the-stars-when-naming-new-ultra-long-haul-aircraft-20260410-p5zmxg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Airbus A350-1000ULR aircraft<\/a> in Sydney, where its non-stop services from London and New York are scheduled to launch late next year.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qantas cannot say when passengers will be able to fly non-stop between Melbourne and London as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-821105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}