Qantas 787

[Greg Hyde]

A couple of news reports on LHR to SYD

Qantas Prepares For London to Sydney Non-Stop Test Flight

https://samchui.com/2019/11/13/qanta.../#.Xcyp-9VS9c9

Qantas CEO dials back Project Sunrise expectations

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce says the airline will choose between the Airbus A350-1000 and Boeing 777X within the next 12 months as partners in its non-stop Project Sunrise flights to London and New York.

However, regardless of the jet chosen to make those marathon 18-20 hour treks, there’s no longer an expectation that it will carry the airline’s previously-stated goal of 300+ passengers across four classes.

“Our belief is [ultra-long-haul flights are] not going to be full passenger payload and freight, but there is sufficient capability to make it commercially viable,” Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has told The South China Morning Post.

Joyce has until now been bullish on expectations that the non-stop flights would have over 300 seats spread across first class, business class, premium economy and economy.

Read: Qantas wants four classes, 300+ passengers in ultra-long range jets

The airline is already talking with seatmakers regarding new designs for the ultra-long flights “to see what kind of a step change we can create for our customers,” Qantas International CEO Alison Webster told Australia Business Traveller earlier this year.

https://www.executivetraveller.com/q...e-expectations

[Greg Hyde]

QF7879

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHZNJ


VH-ZNJ
QFA7879 / QF7879
Expected to depart in 1 hour 48 minutes
Operating as Qantas 7879
LHR London, United Kingdom

Thursday 14/11/2019 06:10AM GMT


landing at Sydney - SYD

Friday 15/11/2019 12:18PM AEDT

[David C]

I’m led to believe that if all goes well with ATC etc. there will be an over flight of OJA at Albion Park by the 787 prior to landing at SYD .

Dave C

[James Smith]

QF7879 was airborne from LHR runway 27L at 6:09 local and has just crossed into Europe.

[Brenden S]

Potential RWY 25 Arrival tomorrow too.

[James Smith]

They have flight planned via Parkes and Rivet so could easily continue onto the Wollongong area but may need a tailwind and the smell of an oily rag to get to Sydney! I thought that they may do a flyover of the harbour as well which could lend itself for a 25 arrival.

They have planned to fly at an groundspeed on 902 kph but have been around the low 800 kph for the last hour or so but have gone back up to 920 kph after turning a little more southerly over Kazakhstan.

When the first Project Sunrise flight from JFK was arriving in SYD I thought that ATC may give them a 25 arrival which would have saved 7 or 8 minutes of flight time in the circuit for 16R, especially after they were given priority over QF12 which was given a short vector for separation prior to commencing descent.

[MarkR]

Originally Posted by James Smith

They have planned to fly at an airspeed on 902 kph but have been around the low 800 kph for the last hour or so but have gone back up to 920 kph after turning a little more southerly over Kazakhstan.

Think you may mean groundspeed!

[James Smith]

Thanks Mark. I have corrected the post.

The flight is just about to cross the island of Maluku in eastern Indonesia with an estimated 4 hours and 45 minutes to SYD.

[Greg Hyde]

Lost some time, revised arrival time 12:25

[Erik H. Bakke]

Just turning final approach for 34L, now.

No overflight of Albion Park, nor of the harbour, it seems. Just a stock standard conga line approach from the Southwest.