A team of NASA scientists are circumnavigating the globe in the final leg of NASA’s AToM project, a series of flights to study the impact of human-produced air pollution in the atmosphere. The custom fitted NASA DC-8 [N817NA] will stopped along these points across the world, including Christchurch, New Zealand May 4 to May 7, 2018.
Current as at 27 March 2018 Qatar Airways: Auckland – Doha Distance: 9,032 miles / 14,535 kilometers Flight time: 18 hours, 5 minutes Aircraft: Boeing 777-200LR Qantas: Perth – London Distance: 9,010 miles / 14,500 kilometers Flight time: 17 hours, 20 minutes Aircraft: Boeing 787-9 Emirates: Auckland – Dubai Distance: 8,824 / 14,200 kilometers Flight…
Today I arrived on NZ103 from Auckland into Sydney. While waiting for an onward connection to Singapore, I spotted ‘Chip’ the Air New Zealand robotic assistant. Chip was very busy greeting and assisting passengers boarding the return flight to back to Auckland. While it is very clever what you can achieve with robots these days, the dialogue was ”cute”…
Hong Kong’s flagship airline Cathay Pacific will launch one of its longest non-stop services in December, a thrice-weekly service to Christchurch in the South Island of New Zealand. The non-stop Christchurch service is set to operate three times a week, with an Airbus A350 aircraft departing Hong Kong on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Subject to…
This is a crazy idea that just might work – The plan is to find up to 5 old Air New Zealand airframes – secure them and then transport them back to New Zealand for restoration and then permanent display. Follow this link to the Bring our Birds Home – Facebook Page for heaps of…
Aviation enthusiasts like me now have a chance to view the world’s largest passenger aircraft in our own backyard as Emirates begins a daily A380 service at Christchurch Airport. Emirates announced last month it would become the first to offer regular scheduled A380 services to Christchurch replacing the daily B777 service to Sydney and on to Dubai. I managed…
The day has finally come when Singapore Airlines 9V-SRP has arrived in the capital. SQ291 touched down from Singapore (via Canberra) this afternoon at around 3pm – complete with a water canon salute and traditional powhiri. The Boeing 777-212(ER) will depart at 8.15pm and return back to Singapore (also via Canberra) as SQ292. The new flight would bring…
With India projected to become the world’s third largest aviation market by 2020 and the recent signing of an Air Services Agreement between our two governments, my prediction is that one day you will be able to get on a flight in Auckland and 12,300km (approx 16 hours later) arrive at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International…
Yesterday my day started at 4.00am with a day trip planed from my home in Christchurch to Auckland, the city of the sales. We had a a number of management and customer meetings planned, nothing too onerous. We got into our work soon after I arrived at the office at 8.00am with the intention of knocking off…
I landed earlier this morning in Wellington on NZ5312 after a very enjoyable short ATR flight from Christchurch. We touched down 10 minutes early – great I thought with my carry on I will be in a cab and into the city way ahead of schedule…! What I didn’t anticipate is that we landed at gate 15 –…
The alarm went at 4am this morning. Wide awake, I leaped out of bed, greeting the new day with anticipation. After a quick shower, I was soon dressed and looking sharp and ready to head off to the airport as I am going to Wellington for a couple of days with work…… Just another day at the office! Well that’s what…
Today is historical (sort of…) as EK448 is about to land in Auckland after the 14,200km journey from Dubai. The 17 odd hour flight will be the the longest sector flown by a scheduled commercial airliner (currently) in the world . What is most interesting is that the integral flight was made by an Emirates A380-861 [A6-EON] not the…
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