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Qantas looks to “Project Sunrise” after Perth-London nonstop takes off
Speaking to Asia’s CNBC Interview soon after the high of travelling on Qantas’ inaugural nonstop Perth to London flight, Qantas Group CEO, Alan Joyce, predicted Project Sunrise, i.e. nonstop flights between Australia’s eastern seaboard cities and London as well as potentially Sydney-New York, could be as close as 2022. Read More »
“You have to fly 21 hours and both Airbus and Boeing have an aircraft that can nearly do it today – the A350-1000 and the B777-AX,” Joyce told CNBC’s Christine Tan. “We are getting those one per cents, little bits of improvements. If, by the end of the year, we can get the aircraft there, we will do a tendering process. In 2019, if it passes the business phase, we will put in an order and I think by 2022 we will be doing it if it passes those few hurdles.
“We are looking at Sydney-London, Melbourne-London, Brisbane-London and potentially Sydney-Melbourne New York. Network changes and the new technologies given to Qantas really have benefitted us for the first time and have allowed us to do things we always wanted to do but never had the capability to do.”
Asked about the viability of ultra long haul flying, Joyce said: “What you are able to do is put a bigger premium cabin in the aircraft. For example, the B787-9 that is flying Perth-London has more premium seats on it than we have ever had because you get more business traffic. They want to travel with you because it is direct and therefore faster. This dramatically improves the revenue of the entire aircraft and improves the economics.
“It also is about 20% more fuel efficient. We can actually fly two B787s tail to tail and its cheaper than flying an A380 by about five per cent.
He continued: “When we move the A380s to Singapore this weekend [March 31-April 1]. We will have an 80% growth in capacity to Singapore because that is where we think the growth will be. It’s the Asian, the Chinese, the Southeast Asian, the Japanese where the huge growth is. That won’t change.
“You take Chinese visitors to Australia as an example. This year they became the largest group of visitors at 1.2 million. On our projections, that could grow in the next 20 years to eight million visitors a year which is more than the entire world that comes to Australia now. Australia only gets one per cent of Chinese visitors yet it is the number one destination that Chinese people want to come to.
“If we can tap into more of that market, it is going to be a massive tourism boom in this country.”
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