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Home  >  Air New Zealand • Qantas  >  Air New Zealand & Qantas Renew Push For Ultra Long-Haul Service
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Air New Zealand & Qantas Renew Push For Ultra Long-Haul Service

Matthew Klint Posted onFebruary 26, 2022February 26, 2022 12 Comments

As the world emerges from pandemic and gears up for an international travel renaissance, both Qantas and Air New Zealand have set their sights on ultra long-haul travel. For Air New Zealand, a new ultra long-haul route may come as early as this year.

In This Post:
  • Exciting Ultra Long-Haul Routes From Air New Zealand & Qantas
    • Qantas Resumes Project Sunrise
    • Air New Zealand Plans Nonstop Auckland – Newark Service Later In 2022
  • CONCLUSION

Exciting Ultra Long-Haul Routes From Air New Zealand & Qantas

Qantas Resumes Project Sunrise

This week, Qantas announced the resumption of Project Sunrise. Project Sunrise is the code name for Qantas’ plan to launch ultra long-haul service from Sydney and Melbourne to key destinations around the globe currently not reachable nonstop. That includes:

  • Cape Town
  • Chicago
  • Frankfurt
  • London
  • New York
  • Paris
  • Rio de Janeiro

Most important, though, is connecting Sydney with London and New York nonstop. Qantas challenged both Airbus and Boeing to come up with an aircraft capable of making the journey with a full load of passengers and cargo and Airbus proved to be the winner, offering a modified A350-1000 it promises can successfully complete the mission.

The pandemic pushed the timeline back, but Qantas now expects to order these aircraft later in 2022 and launch its nonstop ultra long-haul service in 2025.

Prior to the pandemic, Qantas’ daily 9,010-mile Perth – London service onboard the Boeing 787-9 clocked in at over 17 hours when flying west, but also proved to be the most profitable flight in the Qantas network. That London flight will operate from Darwin going forward, with Qantas CEO Alan Joyce raising eyebrows by saying the state of Western Australia (which includes Perth) is “starting to look like North Korea” after it continued to maintain a hard border long after other states had loosened coronavirus-era restrictions. Western Australia has since re-opened its borders.


> Read More: Qantas CEO Optimistic Over Project Sunrise


Air New Zealand Plans Nonstop Auckland – Newark Service Later In 2022

Meanwhile, Air New Zealand CEO Greg Foran announced his carrier intends to launch nonstop service from Auckland to Newark later this year:

“Looking further out to the end of this calendar year, we will be ramping up more passenger flights to North America and looking forward to starting up our direct service to New York City.”

This route had been in the works prior to the pandemic and would have operated according to the following schedule:

  • NZ1 // Newark (EWR) – Auckland (AKL) // dep 7:05PM, arr 6:45AM+2 days
  • NZ2 // Auckland (AKL) – Newark (EWR) // dep 7:55PM, arr 5:35PM

Any new routes, however, will likely be contingent upon New Zealand reopening to international visitors without stringent mandatory quarantines, which still may be months away.

Air New Zealand has hinted at a new business class product on its ultra long-haul Boeing 787-9 aircraft and may also launch a new Economy Skynest product currently in research and development.


> Read More: Air New Zealand Economy Skynest: Innovative, But Practical?


CONCLUSION

Qantas and Air New Zealand are both gearing up to launch ultra long-haul service, with Air New Zealand hinting at nonstop service between Auckland and Newark as early as late 2022. Meanwhile, Qantas has officially resumed “Project Sunrise” and hopes to launch nonstop service between Sydney and London/New York in 2025.

Has the pandemic made you more likely to insist upon nonstop flights?


image: Qantas

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Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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12 Comments

  1. Debit Reply
    February 26, 2022 at 6:56 am

    If god wanted us to go to Australia and new Zealand it wouldn’t have created them so far away. Stop going against god’s wishes. Do not visit Australia or new Zealand. Or better yet, stop believing in god.

    • ted poco Reply
      February 26, 2022 at 7:26 am

      I have, thats why i’ve been to NZ, wonderful place and people. But you should only fly business or first to get there.

    • 21five Reply
      February 26, 2022 at 7:25 pm

      God never intended anyone to go to Newark.

    • Cody Reply
      February 27, 2022 at 6:13 am

      Kindly put. The year is now 2022 not 1822!

  2. Airfarer Reply
    February 26, 2022 at 6:59 am

    I did LHRPER a couple of times before Pandemonium. The 16/17 hours went by comparitively quickly. But, under no circumstances would I contemplate this wearing a mask.

  3. Uri Reply
    February 26, 2022 at 7:37 am

    Sydney to Capetown and Rio Ave interesting routes – not as long as London or New York but very southern with lack of diversion options.
    I wonder how they’d manage this.

  4. cargocult Reply
    February 26, 2022 at 8:02 am

    People complaining about the flight time between SYD and civilization don’t know what real suffering is. Because society is full of people like this, we had safetyist lockdowns that caused immense, actual suffering. United’s flights to Asia (and IAH-SYD) already approach those flight times from the penal colony known as Australia. I’ve flown EWR-HKG, SFO-SIN and LAX-SIN (RIP) many, many times. I even flew HKG-ORD in a middle E- seat (after showering in a flooded shower at the United Club). Can you imagine?! The horror!

  5. Me Reply
    February 26, 2022 at 2:06 pm

    Air NZ *were* planning to do Auckland to Newark. It’s definitely ok for this year, but *now* they’re planning it for JFK, not Newark.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      February 26, 2022 at 2:45 pm

      I don’t think so. Where did you see that?

  6. Alec Reply
    February 26, 2022 at 2:26 pm

    I wonder if Qantas will have first class on these planes

  7. James Harper Reply
    February 27, 2022 at 12:02 pm

    AKL-NYC is only 200 miles longer than DRW-LHR so presumably within range of NZs 789s as it’s also shorter than PER-LHR.

    I guess it comes down to the will on the part of NZ because they seem more to be in withdrawal from long haul routes than opening new ones. But really, how much traffic is there for that route which may connect to the east coast of the US but no where else.

  8. Jerry Reply
    February 28, 2022 at 10:42 am

    What’s the issue with CPT flights? Is it too far for ETOPS? The distance isn’t far at all (relatively speaking).

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