Qantas has an update on Project Sunrise. Yesterday, on LinkedIn:

The second Qantas Project Sunrise A350-1000ULR has entered the final assembly line at Airbus in Toulouse, with the fuselage sections and wings now joined and the tail installed this week. The first Project Sunrise aircraft is in the advanced stages of ground testing, preparing to take to the skies for its flight test programme in the coming months.

First half of 2027 is still the plan for direct flights from Sydney to London and New York, but we don’t know which route will launch first.

Before then, Qantas told Executive Traveller that it will run test flights between Sydney and New Zealand.

(via Australian Aviation.)