{"id":4829,"date":"2019-06-03T11:16:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4829"},"modified":"2019-06-03T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T16:16:24","slug":"qantas-expects-final-proposals-for-sydney-london-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4829","title":{"rendered":"Qantas Expects Final Proposals for Sydney-London Jet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Airline could place an order for A350 or 777X by year end<\/li><li>21-hour flight would be the world&#8217;s longest<\/li><li>Qantas plans economy class section, including stretching zone (Adds details on aircraft configuration)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>SEOUL, June 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Qantas Airways Ltd has asked Airbus SE and Boeing Co to present their &#8220;best and final offer&#8221; for planes capable of flying 21-hours non-stop from Sydney to London by August, the airline&#8217;s chief executive said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully by the end of the year \u2026 we will come to a conclusion one way or another,&#8221; Qantas CEO Alan Joyce told reporters on the sidelines of an airline industry conference in Seoul. &#8220;If the business case works we will put in an order.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qantas is aiming for the planes to be delivered from late 2022, with the first Sydney-London flights likely in 2023, he said. The route would be the world&#8217;s longest commercial flight and Qantas is examining A350 and 777X models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The airline is in talks with pilots about changing a labour contract to increase productivity to help support the business case for an order, Joyce said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qantas plans to have four service classes on the airplane, including first, business, premium economy and economy, with a zone for economy and premium economy-class passengers to stretch and hydrate, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singapore Airlines Ltd has only business class and premium economy on the world&#8217;s current longest route, from Singapore to New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joyce said Qantas&#8217; success in selling around 90% of economy-class seats on its Perth-London flights showed there was demand for economy class on the even longer Sydney-London route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There still will be a large economy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qantas also planned other routes with the new jets such as Melbourne-London, Sydney-New York and possibly flights from the east coast of Australia to other cities in Europe, the U.S. east coast and Brazil, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reporting by Jamie Freed; Editing by Stephen Coates)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/x.jpg?fit=640%2C360\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/x.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/x-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/x-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/x-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qantas Airways Ltd has asked Airbus SE and Boeing Co to present their &#8220;best and final offer&#8221; for planes capable of flying 21-hours non-stop from Sydney to London by August, the airline&#8217;s chief executive said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,4813,89,799,2203,1397,868,1103],"tags":[2627,560,49,47,118,4995,1480,160,41,184,988,851,3998,3068,595,1767,1671,660,589,87,3656,3577,718,412,995,4996,594,4847,2096,485,1288,1055,413,1756,2755,1162],"class_list":["post-4829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","category-finance-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-2627","tag-777x","tag-a350","tag-airbus","tag-airlines","tag-august","tag-australia","tag-aviation","tag-boeing","tag-brazil","tag-business","tag-class","tag-coast","tag-east","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-first","tag-flight","tag-jet","tag-london","tag-longest","tag-melbourne","tag-new","tag-news","tag-order","tag-perth","tag-premium","tag-proposal","tag-purchase","tag-qantas","tag-reuters","tag-service","tag-singapore","tag-sydney","tag-world","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4832,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions\/4832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}