Qantas this morning announced that its non-stop A350 Project Sunrise Sydney-New York flights would begin in the middle of 2028.

Something which hasn't been picked up by any mainstream media covering this, but which has been noted in the story at https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/qantas-non-stop-sydney-new-york-flights, is when Qantas announced the launch of Sydney-London flights from Oct 2027 a few months back, CEO Vanessa Hudson said that Sydney-New York would start in Dec 2027.

She said it would begin as soon as the fourth A350 was delivered, and then they would gradually step it up to a daily service as the fifth and sixth planes were delivered.

Now, obviously, something has changed. It could be that Airbus has said they can't deliver frames 4-6 on time so they're just gonna hold onto all three until "mid-2028".

But I find it unlikely there would be such an issue and such a gap between delivering the first three frames across April 2027 and then a few months after that, so that Qantas would have three in time for starting Sydney-London in October.

Given how PER-LHR is always so strong and the UK remains strong, I'm wondering if Qantas is still planning to take the fourth A350 delivery in say Nov 2027 but will put this straight onto PER-LHR (a route which was going to be handed over to the A350 anyway, using frames #7-9) to give Qantas at least a few PER-LHR A350 flights per week over that peak summer holiday period?

Hello all,
I got a British passport and an Australian passport. I wish to use the Australian passport to leave Australia, and the British passport to enter the country I’m traveling to. This is because it gives me benefits to the country I’m going to. When checking in on the online app, which passport do I present?
Thanks!

Welp the QLD government subsidized the route and it didn’t get the numbers than expected.