QantasLink's first A220-300, VH-X4A, arrives in Sydney after its ferry flight from Montreal. (Image: Qantas)

Traffic #392 | First Airbus A220 arrives Down Under

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First Airbus A220 arrives Down Under

QantasLink has welcomed the arrival of its first Airbus A220 after Australia’s first jet of this type made its way from the Airbus manufacturing plant in Mirabel, Canada to Sydney on 20 December. VH-X4A departed from Airbus’ Montreal-based plant on 16 December, taking the scenic route across the Pacific via Hawaii, Fiji and Brisbane.

Registered as VH-X4A, the A220 also joins the ranks of Qantas’ ‘Flying Art’ series, donning a unique Indigenous artwork livery known as ‘Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa’, which tells the Dreaming story of two sisters reuniting and making their way back home. Qantas says the artwork, designed by First Nations design agency Balarinji, is the most complex of its six Flying Art aircraft, comprising over 20,000 dots.

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