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What Other Polar Flight You Know...  
User currently offlineJonathanlo From Canada, joined Jun 2001, 21 posts, RR: 0
Posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 607 times:

i know two of them...

UA JFK-HKG
CO EWR-HKG


any others???

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User currently offlineSlawko From Canada, joined exactly 14 years ago today! , 3799 posts, RR: 10
Reply 1, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 548 times:

The first Polar flight ever of a pax airline was Cathay Pacific A340 Service from Toronto (YYZ) To Hong Kong (HKG) it was the first polar route, and was used on a trial basis to see how well this type of flight would do, after a few flights the route returned to the regular YYZ-ANC-HKG.


"Clive Beddoe says he favours competition, but his actions do not support that idea." Robert Milton - CEO Air Canada
User currently offlineHlywdCatft From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 5321 posts, RR: 7
Reply 2, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 541 times:

I thought that one of the first polar flights was Northwest from DTW to Seoul, in which it also overflew a lot of Russian airspace. There were some Russian advisors on board the flight.

User currently offlineJonathanlo From Canada, joined Jun 2001, 21 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 528 times:

o i miss one...


CX JFK-HKG

which will start in Sept 2001

User currently offlineFrostbite From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 394 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 526 times:

Condor German Airlines, FRA-Whitehorse (YXY)-Fairbanks (FAI)-FRA with a 763ER. Similarly FRA-ANC. Not to mention many cargo carriers between FAI/ANC and Europe.

Maybe I'm missing something, what is so special about these new polar HKG flights other than their long duration. Commerical flights have been traversing, and for that matter serving communities in the high arctic for many years.

DL staged a flight test JFK-PEK-ATL using a 777 a couple months back. No revenue pax of course.

Frostbyte
Fairbanks, AK


User currently offlineAirBoyYVR From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 520 times:

On October 19, 2001 Air Canada will start nonstop flights from Vancouver to Delhi which are scheduled to operate over the "polar route" -- it will be a 4-times-a-week seasonal service that will run through April of 2002.

User currently offlineJonathanlo From Canada, joined Jun 2001, 21 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 510 times:

what kind of plane they use to fly the Vancouver to Delhi???
A 340-300???

User currently offlineZK-NBT From New Zealand, joined Oct 2000, 5020 posts, RR: 12
Reply 7, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 498 times:

QF Auckland-Buenos Aires in 744 twice a week incresing to 3x from October 31.
Previously AR in A342 until a couple of weeks ago.

Scott.

User currently offlineTAA_Airbus From Australia, joined Nov 1999, 726 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 490 times:

Qantas flys to the south pole in January every year.

Must do it one day, very pricy however!

User currently offlineGrasshopper From Canada, joined Nov 2007, 0 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 486 times:

Qantas and Air New Zealand still operate overflights to the Antarctic.

User currently offlineJonathanlo From Canada, joined Jun 2001, 21 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (11 years 11 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 475 times:

Is Canada 3000 operating the non-stop flight from Vancouver to Delhi too???
If yes... is this one a polar flight...
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