Also, are there aircraft capable doing Auckland-Istanbul? Emirates/Qatar is a go...

kiwijamo · on Jan 8, 2018

I 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 · on Jan 8, 2018

> 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 :)

fyfy18 · on Jan 8, 2018

That’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/ is a good site to find the distance of great circle routes)