QF14 Repatriation flight - Buenos Aires to Darwin!

[KNAPPO]

Check this out, a real once in a life time flight.
Flightradar 24 playback

Piccies and videos in the Instagram post, slide 6 is pretty darn cool.
Flightradar24 data still has them just under 35,000 feet along Antarctica, so it looks like they were super lucky and had clear skies.




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[nutty]

That is freaking cool... tho I really dont know how I would go sitting on a flight for 17.5 hours..

[Duke]

Fark we live on a big planet!!!

[pixelboy]

Yeah that flight would have been amazing. QF63 to Joberg has a similar path and occasionally spots icebergs and land as it skirts Antarctica. I've done that flight several times but never quite spotted ice.

[w00dsy]

That would have been tough. Trying to get enough momentum on the downward bit to get up the upward bit.

[durbster]

Wow, I didn't now they were doing this. Not a lot of options if there's a problem

My uncle's done the Perth-London flight. He said it's not particularly pleasant and basically a case of gritting your teeth and enduring it. He's done it twice though so it can't be that bad

[pixelboy]

It's better than 6hrs at Changi Airport