China has announced that the new route between Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, and Shanghai, Chinese, will be the largest in the world and will start operating on December 4. The flight, operated by China Eastern Airlines, will have a technique in Auckland, New Zealand.
Since the flight is regarded as “straightforward”, although it is not “without scales” (nonstop) – an important differential in the air sector – the company characterizes it as “the longest direct flight in the world”.
The distance arrives at the house of 19,681 kilometers and, according to the company the journey from Shanghai to Buenos Aires will have about 25 hours and 30 minutes, with the reverse route and can reach 29 hours.
Numerous airlines try to claim for themselves the “longer” route awards as part of a marketing play, but for experts this title is for Singapore Airlines, which operates a direct flight between Singapore and New York.
China Eastern Airlines presents its new route as “the world’s first commercial route connecting antipodic cities”, that is, points in the diametrically opposite land.
“The Shanghai Pudong-Auckland-Benos Aires route is seen as an important step towards building a new ‘silk route’ air channel ‘between Asia-Pacific and South America,” the company says.
The new air bridge tries to strengthen the ability of Chinese civil aviation, which seeks a market expansion and on the other hand, consolidates Argentina as a strategic hub in South America.
