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Old Mar 26, 2012 | 6:03 pm
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Originally Posted by Reason077
There is actually an opportunity here for AKL to act as a hub connecting South America to certain South East Asian destinations, e.g. HKG. Going via AKL would be 500-1000nm shorter than existing routings via Europe or North America.

NZ have been looking seriously at South America for a while. The problem is, until the 787 arrives, they don't really have the aircraft to fly it. I don't think the 772 can fly AKL-EZE economically (yet), due to ETOPS restrictions. And I couldn't see them using a 747.
I wonder what plane they're using for the one-off flight to Argentina for the All Blacks game?

I agree we'd be a good transit point, I know we have visa-free access to a lot of South American countries, I presume this is reciprocal?
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