Full Sunrise A350-1000 details yet to emerge

Airbus has yet to disclose detailed final specifications of the adapted A350-1000 which will be developed for Qantas’s Project Sunrise ultra-long-haul flights. The provisional selection of the twinjet by Qantas is still to evolve into a firm order, owing to continuing negotiations over various aspects of the envisioned New York-Sydney and London-Sydney flights. But the airframer stresses that the proposed aircraft, while “based on” the -1000, is “not a ULR”, suggesting that it is not intending to produce an equivalent modified version of the -1000 in the same way that it developed the A350-900ULR for ultra-long-haul services. Airbus has not confirmed the range or final maximum take-off weight of the Sunrise aircraft, but has been putting forward a 319t version of the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-powered jet. <br/>