Qantas’ Project Sunrise plans were put on hold last year as chests rattled around the globe. Now talk is once again buzzing around the project (whose ambition is to connect Australia’s east coast with the likes of London, New York, Rio, Capetown and Frankfurt via non-stop flights), once again.
50 million dollars was allegedly offered to Qantas in late April, in return for seven commitments from the airline, including launching Project Sunrise from Sydney, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
“The NSW government secretly offered $50 million in taxpayer funds to Qantas to head off a bidding war with rival states to keep the airline’s global headquarters in Sydney,” the publication wrote on Tuesday.