The project’s name, Project Sunrise, reflects the unique journey passengers will experience—witnessing two sunrises during a single trip. It is also emblematic of Qantas’s goal to 'overcome the tyranny of distance' between Australia and other major global cities. These flights, expected to begin in 2026, will reduce current travel times by up to four hours.
Between mid-December 2024 and late March 2025, the airline will increase flights from five a week to daily, adding over 12,000 seats between the two cities over the four-month period, Qantas said in a statement.
In 2022, IndiGo and Qantas finalised a codeshare partnership, enabling Qantas customers flying on non-stop flights between Australia and India to connect to 21 destinations in India on IndiGo.
A couple forced to spend a 10-hour flight on seats wet and stained with urine have successfully wrangled a refund from their airline Qantas.
Australia’s competition watchdog caught the company, which has 60% of market share, selling seats on flights that had already been cancelled. Qantas continued advertising more than 8,000 flights for an average of two weeks, and for as long as 47 days, even after that service had been scrapped.
Qantas has unveiled a plan to repurchase100 million australian doller (USD 104m) of its shares and repay 650 million australian doller in debt ahead of schedule.