Daily Emirates A380 arrives at Christchurch

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…

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…