Qantas has announced that the very first Airbus A350-1000ULR is taking shape in Airbus's final assembly line in Toulouse . The airline and manufacturer have shared images of the aircraft that will enable Qantas's long-awaited Project Sunrise, a network of routes connecting Australia's East Coast to London and New York nonstop. The two parties have also confirmed the marketing name for the plane, the Airbus A350-1000ULR, as well as its specifications.

The Project Sunrise routes are to be the world's longest flights when they finally launch, comfortably beating out Singapore Airlines' nonstop route from New York-JFK to Singapore, currently the world's longest nonstop flight by great circle distance, by a comfortable margin. Qantas currently has 12 of these aircraft on order exclusively

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