{"id":34340,"date":"2026-07-28T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/34340\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:18:07","slug":"24-hour-flight-qantas-airbus-a350-1000ulr-sets-new-benchmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/34340\/","title":{"rendered":"24-Hour Flight: Qantas\u2019 Airbus A350-1000ULR Sets New Benchmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-kserv-preview=\"\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Airbus A350-1000ULR this week spent more than 24 hours in the air on a nonstop flight from Melbourne, Australia, to Toulouse, France, setting unofficial records for distance and endurance by a commercial airliner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Airbus said Tuesday morning that the ultra-long-range A350-1000 variant landed in Toulouse after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightradar24.com\/data\/aircraft\/f-wulr#40df2c78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">24-hour, 24-minute eastbound journey<\/a> spanning 12,460 nm, or more than 23,000 km. The widebody airliner flew the \u201cwrong way\u201d from Australia rather than the shorter westbound route it took last week from Toulouse to Melbourne, which covered about 9,120 nm in around 19 hours and 12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>CREATE A FREE ACCOUNT<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up to keep reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"kserv-gate__simple-message\">Create a free account to continue. Already a member? Sign in below.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tDismiss<\/p>\n<p>CREATE A FREE ACCOUNT<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up to keep reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"kserv-gate__simple-message\">Create a free account to continue. Already a member? Sign in below.<\/p>\n<p>OUT OF FREE ARTICLES<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou&#8217;ve used your free articles<\/p>\n<p class=\"kserv-gate__simple-message\">You&#8217;ve read all of your free articles for now. Subscribe for unlimited access to every story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Airbus A350-1000ULR this week spent more than 24 hours in the air on a nonstop flight from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[12795,90,3445,22434,1934,1935,1448,22435],"class_list":["post-34340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-airbus","tag-a350-1000ulr","tag-airbus","tag-commercial-aviation","tag-flight-endurance","tag-project-sunrise","tag-qantas","tag-record","tag-test-flight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}