Emirates direct to NZ
 

Apologies if this may have been discussed before. I had heard from a colleague that Emirates may be planning a direct flight to NZ? She told me that it was being discussed on a radio show in Dubai. Could it be possible?

Anything is possible I suppose and personally I would like to get a direct, non-stop flight DXB to AKL but from what I have observed the many times I have flown from DXB to AKL is that very large numbers of people get off in Aus and new people get on for the Trans Tasman hop and vice versa. I suppose that if you combined all those that are on the flights through SYD, Melbourne and Brisbane that go through toe AKL and vice versa you could fill a plane though ...

Agree, my NZ destination from DXB is CHC and know this would never be direct to DXB as always as you say a lot get of at SYD. I had also seen that QATAR are in talks with AKL about right to fly to NZ and wondered if this were to happen would give EK a push to implement a direct flight? Would def fly to Akl if that was the case then grab the quick flight to CHC.

I agree, but I think its unlikely that EK would get rid of DXB-SYD/BNE/MEL-AKL in favour of a once daily DXB-AKL

I guess that would depend on the profitability of the Trans Tasman traffic. After all it seems that their crews spend about 3 days in Aus and NZ after arriving from DXB in Aus before they head back and this would perhaps not be necessary if they dispensed with the "via" flights. I think that they do at least one AUS to NZ to AUS while they are down under though.

This would be about 8,824 miles, some 500 miles longer than their current longest flight and 250 miles longer than the longest commercial scheduled flight in the world (DFW-SYD) once SQ axes their US flights. Possible, I am sure, but it must be a real stretch of the 777 capacity.

That said, who wouldn't love to fly LAX-AKL the long way?