Emirates direct to NZ
Mar 8, 2013 | 3:32 am
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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?
Mar 8, 2013 | 3:47 am
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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 ...
Mar 8, 2013 | 3:58 am
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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.
Mar 8, 2013 | 1:24 pm
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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 ...
Mar 8, 2013 | 1:49 pm
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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.
Mar 8, 2013 | 9:15 pm
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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?
That said, who wouldn't love to fly LAX-AKL the long way?