It all happened at the weekend. Qantas finally confirmed Project Sunrise with a big announcement in Sydney and the placing of an order for 12 A350-1000’s configured with a high proportion of business class capacity for the nineteen plus hour flights to London and New York. There is no need to rush to book a flight though, it will be 2025 before we see services launched.
Meanwhile, Spirit Airlines announced a preference for a partnership with Frontier rather than JetBlue citing possible regulatory issues with JetBlue – although we can expect that story to carry on through the summer. And New Zealand welcomed back international visitors after two years, reopening its borders to vaccinated travellers. The country had closed its borders in March 2020 to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Airlines are becoming increasingly optimistic , we just need a few roadblocks, preventing a full recovery, to be removed in North East Asia at some point before 2025 ideally!
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