India, July 28 -- Airbus has completed a marathon nonstop test flight of Qantas' first Airbus A350-1000ULR, flying the aircraft from Melbourne to Toulouse in more than 24 hours as part of the airline's ambitious Project Sunrise programme.

According to AeroTime, the aircraft landed in Toulouse on July 28 after a trans-Pacific route that took it over the US and Canada. Flight tracking data from Flightradar24 showed the journey lasted 24 hours and 23 minutes, making it the longest flight ever completed by a commercial aircraft during testing and surpassing the previous record of 22 hours and 42 minutes, set by a Boeing 777-200LR in 2005.

The aircraft, currently registered F-WULR, departed Melbourne at 5:27 pm local time on July 27 and land...