Prediction: Air NZ may one day fly non-stop to India.
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…
Foggy night disruptions… just another day at the office!
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…
EK448 Arrives Nonstop from DBX to AKL
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…
EK daily direct AKL to DXB from 1 March 2016
Looks like EK beat QR to the punch!! Yet more options, competition and capacity through AKL… http://www.emirates.com/nz/English/a…200lr-aircraft Interesting that they will be using 777-200LR equipment and the new service has an estimated flight time of just under 16 hours from DXB to New Zealand and 17 hours, 15 minutes in the other direction. This will…
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