The Airbus A350-1000ULR, custom-designed and built for Qantas’ Project Sunrise initiative, is undergoing test flights ahead of the first planned aircraft delivery Down Under in April 2027.

Under the partnership, some roles will be offshored to Accenture’s teams in India, some will remain based in Australia, and others will “in time be transformed further with automation and AI”.

Following a review by air traffic management consultants Trax International, Airservices has opened the ideas for public comment. It follows the release of a Brisbane Noise Action Plan, which would reduce noise impacts from the airport for around 140,000 people, earlier this year.

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QF1 and QF2, which are currently used for Sydney to London flights via Singapore, will be switched to the non-stop A350-1000ULR flights on their launch in October 2027. It comes as flight tests continue on the first Project Sunrise aircraft.

Asked about a direct service linking the city in Central Western NSW to Newcastle, which would bypass the need for a connection through Sydney, Orange City Council’s director of corporate and commercial services, Jen Sharp, said they were “still in negotiations”.

The aircraft was announced at the UP.Summit at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The high-performance, highly adaptable research platform is designed to accelerate the development and testing of advanced aviation technologies.

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