Originally Posted by
wiggy
Your point might not be completely valid..
AFAIK it's the second leg of the delivery flight, so unless they were going to ship the hull from Seattle to Sydney it was going to have to be flown there anyway.. (though I accept routing via LHR my be somewhat suboptimal from an environmental POV)
https://simpleflying.com/qantas-london-project-sunrise/
Not entirely, they’ve flown it SEA-LAX-LHR-SYD and in the process burned well in excess of 150 tonnes of fuel. All in the name of an experiment.
Haven’t heard anyone from #TeamEco beating Qantas about doing such a irresponsible thing!
OMAA