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First Commercial Flight Lands in Antarctica
Jesse Tabit December 04, 2015
Adelie penguins on the iceberg in Antarctica
A Loftleidir Icelandic Boeing 757 is the first commercial flight to land in Antarctic last week thanks to Loftleidir Icelandic, tour company Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions, and NAS Corporation Limited.
In a statement, the tour company said it organized the trip to “prove the feasibility of landing commercial passenger airlines” in Antarctica. A majority of travelers currently visit the southernmost continent via boat.
For more information on this story, visit Huffington Post.
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I believe a few tour companies do fly & sail packages to Antartica using ARJ-85s.
Now if one could only get an award ticket for that route! ☺
Not the first commercial flight there have been such flights for some 30 years (some being private charters). This was the first ever landing by a commercial Boeing 757 passenger airliner. At least reference the original press release rather rehashing multiple articles: http://www.adventure-network.com/news/boeing-757-lands-union-glacier