Tickets for flights between Shanghai and Buenos Aires available

Thursday, September 11th 2025 - 09:30 UTC

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China Eastern Airlines has begun selling tickets for its new flights from Shanghai to Buenos Aires, which are scheduled to commence on December 4. The new service will become the world's longest direct flight by duration, lasting some 29 hours with a technical stopover in Auckland, New Zealand, for refueling. Read full article

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FortHay
Cool. I remember the last time there was an airline flying the South polar route: Aerolineas Argentinas used to service Buenos Aires / Auckland with a 'technical' stop at Rio Gallegos when flying against the jet stream.
Sep 11th, 2025 - 06:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Frank
There have been a few operators since then, I did a 'there and back' with Aerolineas in 2004. After they pulled out I took to flying to Stiago via Auckland with Latam but I did a few trips with Qantas - BA~Syd around 2010. After they abandoned the route Air New Zealand was operating Auk~ BA for a few years.
Currently LATAM offers Stiago via Auk to Sydney as well as both Stiago direct to Sydney and Melbourne while Qantas now has a direct Syd~ Stiago service.
It will be interesting to see how long this new service lasts.
Sep 12th, 2025 - 04:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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