NZFF

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2014 1:59 pm**

Air NZ announces their 1st South American Route.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/6407336...to-Buenos-Aires

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2014 2:18 pm**

Well the world is getting smaller , 13 hour flight direct is very similar to the typical to KL/HK flight .. guess it open's the doors.

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2014 4:33 pm**

Cool aye.
All the reason I need to buy the Tropical-Sim Buenos-Aires for FSX

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2014 4:50 pm**

That'll make it easier for me to be able to afford to visit my son, it's always been a bit of a price to fly to South America. Although he lives in Colombia, he's actually in Argentina at the moment, getting data recovered from a damaged hard-drive... He's learnt a very valuable lesson about checking that your backup protocol actually works!

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2014 5:57 pm**

zk2704 wrote:
QUOTE (zk2704 @ Dec 12 2014,2:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Air NZ announces their 1st South American Route.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/6407336...to-Buenos-Aires

Yes, but 1 year away??? This I believe is what you call a strategic announcement to possibly way lay competition. I talked to a Lan Pilot just yesterday and he stated that the route was ideal for a LAN Dreamliner but that he would always prefer to fly the A340... take what you will from that.

Spike

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:10 pm**

Spikehughes wrote:
QUOTE (Spikehughes @ Dec 12 2014,3:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
... I talked to a Lan Pilot just yesterday and he stated that the route was ideal for a LAN Dreamliner but that he would always prefer to fly the A340... take what you will from that.
Spike

That LAN pilot is clearly a gentleman of excellent taste

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:23 pm**

emfrat wrote:
QUOTE (emfrat @ Dec 12 2014,10:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
That LAN pilot is clearly a gentleman of excellent taste

Or suffering from cabin depressurization

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:27 pm**

omitchell wrote:
QUOTE (omitchell @ Dec 12 2014,10:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Or suffering from cabin depressurization

He wasn't a young chappie, but a long serving captain... I think he preferred 4 engines to two over such a large expanse of water..regardless of the modern ETOPS peformance allowances.

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:32 pm**

If you look at LAN Chile's fleet they have all twin engine aircraft and only 3 A340's just to serve the Auckland/Sydney route, but they are supposedly due to be replaced by 789's

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2014 11:22 pm**

Lindstrim wrote:
QUOTE (Lindstrim @ Dec 12 2014,10:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
If you look at LAN Chile's fleet they have all twin engine aircraft and only 3 A340's just to serve the Auckland/Sydney route, but they are supposedly due to be replaced by 789's

Yeah they have been slowly phasing out their aging A340 fleet, they were 200 and 300 series

Posted: **Sat Dec 13, 2014 7:21 am**

Spikehughes wrote:
QUOTE (Spikehughes @ Dec 12 2014,10:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
He wasn't a young chappie, but a long serving captain... I think he preferred 4 engines to two over such a large expanse of water..regardless of the modern ETOPS peformance allowances.

Think the ole saying is the Atlantic is a mill pond compared to the Pacific , we regularly get aircraft tracking over Christchurch from OZ heading to South America .... you find them with the good old human eyeball on a gorgeous day.

NZFF

Air NZ annonces flights to Buenos Aires