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Is there a possibility of improvements to the 787 that would get it from London to Sydney/Melbourne non-stop? Or is that route off the table until the next gen
by mason55 9y ago
Is there a possibility of improvements to the 787 that would get it from London to Sydney/Melbourne non-stop? Or is that route off the table until the next generation?
- ngoldbaum 9y agoThere's speculation that the 797 will be able to do this.
- selectodude 9y agoThey're getting close. Qantas is doing Perth to London on a 787-9 starting in March.
- dzhiurgis 9y agoAlso, are there aircraft capable doing Auckland-Istanbul? Emirates/Qatar is a good hub, but not ideal for me.
- fyfy18 9y agoThat’s 10,600nmi on a great circle route. Most current and upcoming long range aircraft are around 1000nmi short of that. (http://www.gcmap.com/ http://www.gcmap.com/ is a good site to find the distance of great circle routes)
- kiwijamo 9y agoI can't see either Air NZ or Turkish doing that. Air NZ already has a partnership with Singapore/Cathay so I'd imagine they'd continue to feed into SIN/HKG. Unless they form a partnership with Turkish which I also can't see happening even though they're both in Star Alliance. What's the downside of Qatar's hub? I'll be flying QR AKL-DOH-MAN then PRG-DOH-AKL this year so I'm interested to hear your experiences of QR via DOH.
- dzhiurgis 9y ago> What's the downside of Qatar's hub? No flights to Vilnius nor Riga. The best I can do is Warsaw/Copenhagen, then Palanga, which is sort of more convenient, but more expensive. Also, I haven't been to Istanbul, but it must be way more interesting than Doha :)