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A <\/span>historic and unprecedented route,<\/b> at least for <\/span>Argentina<\/b>, began on <\/span>December 4th, 2025, connecting three different continents.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Buenos Aires Ezeiza \u2013 November 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On <\/span>December 4th<\/b> at 02:19 local time, one of <\/span>China Eastern Airlines Boeing 777-300<\/b> aircraft departed <\/span>Shanghai Pudong International Airport <\/b>to <\/span>Auckland,<\/b> operating scheduled flight <\/span>MU745<\/b>. The <\/span>airline has been offering the Shanghai-Auckland route since December 2014,<\/b> with the <\/span>Chinese city being one of its current four destinations performed to\/from AKL,<\/b> including <\/span>Hangzhou<\/b>, <\/span>Sydney<\/b>, <\/span>Shanghai<\/b>, and now <\/span>Buenos Aires<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Buenos Aires is the latest addition,<\/b> resulting from an agreement with <\/span>Auckland Airport, <\/b>which <\/span>encouraged the re-establishment of flights between New Zealand and Argentina.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Aerol\u00edneas Argentinas Boeing 747-200 \u2013 April 1980<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The <\/span>history of Argentina and its flights to Oceania started in the 1970s,<\/b> with special operations by the <\/span>Argentine Air Force using Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft, <\/b>being in <\/span>December 1973 <\/b>the <\/span>first flight between Argentina and New Zealand with a stopover at Marambio Base, an Argentine base in Antarctica.<\/b><\/p>\n

Aerol\u00edneas Argentinas was the first airline to launch commercial flights to Oceania from Argentina,<\/b> commencing on <\/span>June 7th, 1980,<\/b> with <\/span>Boeing 747-200 aircraft. <\/b>Due to <\/span>wind conditions on the eastbound-westbound route,<\/b> the <\/span>Buenos Aires-Auckland leg included a technical stop in R\u00edo Gallegos,<\/b> in <\/span>Argentine Patagonia<\/b>, which was <\/span>maintained throughout all operations using the 747.<\/b> The <\/span>Auckland-Buenos Aires segment was always non-stop.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Aerol\u00edneas Argentinas Boeing 747-200 \u2013 August 1994<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The <\/span>Argentine flag carrier was the only airline operating flights in the Latin America-Oceania market until the mid-1990s,<\/b> when <\/span>Qantas began services between Sydney and Buenos Aires<\/b> via <\/span>Auckland <\/b>on <\/span>Boeing 747-400<\/b> aircraft. This <\/span>stopover in Auckland was short-lived,<\/b> as <\/span>non-stop flights commenced by late 1990s.<\/b><\/p>\n

LAN Chile,<\/b> now known as <\/span>LATAM Airlines<\/b>, entered the <\/span>Latin America-Oceania market in 2001<\/b> after <\/span>adding its first Airbus A340-300 to its fleet.<\/b> The arrival of these aircraft <\/span>permitted the launch of the Santiago de Chile \u2013 Auckland \u2013 Sydney route<\/b> and vice versa, which operated through late <\/span>October 2025<\/b>. Currently, it offers the <\/span>Santiago \u2013 Auckland \u2013 Santiago<\/b> and <\/span>Santiago \u2013 Sydney \u2013 Santiago<\/b> routes<\/b>, in addition to the <\/span>Santiago \u2013 Melbourne \u2013 Santiago route, <\/b>all with <\/span>Boeing 787 Dreamliners.<\/b><\/p>\n

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LAN Airbus A340-300 \u2013 September 2004<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Due to <\/span>Argentina\u2019s delicate political, economic, <\/b>and <\/span>social situation,<\/b> Qantas suspended its flights to Buenos Aires <\/b>in <\/span>2001,<\/b> resuming them in August 2008<\/b> and once again <\/span>ceasing them on March 24th, 2012.<\/b> The following day, the <\/span>Australian airline launched its services between Sydney and Santiago de Chile,<\/b> also with <\/span>Boeing 747-400(ER) <\/b>aircraft. <\/span>Under an agreement with LAN,<\/b> Chile\u2019s leading airline and at that time part of Oneworld,<\/span> Qantas replaced Buenos Aires with Santiago de Chile as its sole destination in Latin America.<\/b><\/p>\n

For its part, <\/span>Aerol\u00edneas Argentinas continued to operate between Argentina and Oceania,<\/b> although in <\/span>2012 it also reduced its presence on the continent by permanently ceasing operations in Auckland.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Qantas Boeing 747-400 at Buenos Aires \u2013 November 1995<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By mid-<\/strong><\/span>1999, the Argentine state-own airline incorporated its first Airbus A340-200s,<\/b> which enabled it to <\/span>launch non-stop flights between Buenos Aires and Oceania.<\/b> The<\/span> first A340 service on this connection<\/b> took place in late<\/strong> <\/span>1999.<\/b><\/p>\n

Aerol\u00edneas Argentinas remained the sole operator in the Argentina-Oceania market after Qantas\u2019 cease,<\/b> with <\/span>three weekly flights on the Buenos Aires \u2013 Sydney \u2013 Buenos Aires route using 249-seat Airbus A340-200 aircraft.<\/b> However, the<\/span> Argentine airline followed in the footsteps of its Australian counterpart<\/b> just <\/span>two years later.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Aerol\u00edneas Argentinas Airbus A340-200 at Sydney \u2013 March 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On <\/span>April 1st, 2014, Aerol\u00edneas Argentinas\u2019 last flight from Sydney Kingsford International Airport<\/b> landed at <\/span>Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires,<\/b> at least until now. The <\/span>Airbus A340-211 with registration LV-ZPO<\/b> arrived with <\/span>214 passengers on board,<\/b> an 86% occupancy rate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aerol\u00edneas Argentinas bid farewell to this market following almost 34 years of uninterrupted operations.<\/b> During <\/span>2020<\/b>, the company <\/span>operated a few flights between Buenos Aires and Shanghai via Auckland and vice versa in search of COVID-19 vaccines, <\/b>but it never returned with regular flights.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Aerol\u00edneas Argentinas Airbus A330 departing Auckland \u2013 May 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just a <\/span>few months after Aerol\u00edneas Argentinas\u2019 exit,<\/b> Air New Zealand made a historic announcement,<\/b> both for the airline and for Latin America: the <\/span>launch of its first regular destination in the Americas<\/b> beyond the United States and Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Star Alliance member inaugurated its flights between Auckland and Buenos Aires on December 1st, 2015,<\/b> conducting <\/span>three weekly frequencies<\/b> by 312-seat <\/span>Boeing 777-200(ER) aircraft.<\/b> The announcement had been made in <\/span>December 2014<\/b>, and ticket sales had begun in <\/span>March 2015<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Air New Zealand had high occupancy rates from the start,<\/b> reaching its peak during the <\/span>2018\/2019 South American summer,<\/b> offering up to <\/span>six flights per week.<\/b> It operated mainly with <\/span>Boeing 777-200(ER)<\/b> and <\/span>Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft<\/b> seating <\/span>302 passengers<\/b>, and some sporadic flights with <\/span>Boeing 777-300(ER) aircraft.<\/b><\/p>\n

In <\/span>March 2020<\/b>, due to the <\/span>COVID-19<\/b> pandemic<\/b>, <\/span>Air New Zealand announced the suspension of some of its long-haul routes,<\/b> including <\/span>Auckland \u2013 Buenos Aires.<\/b> At first, <\/span>this was supposed to be a temporary suspension,<\/b> but <\/span>flights to Buenos Aires were permanently discontinued,<\/b> marking the <\/span>end of Air New Zealand\u2019s service to Latin America.<\/b><\/p>\n

Argentina was once again without a non-stop connection to Oceania, <\/b>while <\/span>Chile had an important network of routes to Australia and New Zealand<\/b> operated by <\/span>LATAM<\/b>, in addition to <\/span>Qantas flights from Sydney.<\/b><\/p>\n

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In <\/span>June 2025<\/b>, <\/span>Auckland Airport published a press release on its website<\/b> about the <\/span>launch of a new regular route between China and South America through Auckland,<\/b> operated by a <\/span>Chinese airline.<\/b><\/p>\n

The article mentioned the possibility of <\/span>restoring flights between New Zealand and Argentina,<\/b> with a route that would <\/span>not start or end in either of these two countries,<\/b> as the <\/span>entire journey would be Shanghai \u2013 Auckland \u2013 Buenos Aires and vice versa,<\/b> performed by the <\/span>SkyTeam member China Eastern Airlines.<\/b><\/p>\n

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All <\/span>necessary authorizations and procedures between the three countries,<\/b> as well as with the airline, <\/span>progressed successfully<\/b>, with ticket sales beginning on <\/span>September 2nd <\/b>and the <\/span>inaugural flight scheduled to operate on December 4th.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Everything went according to plan, with <\/span>China Eastern Airlines\u2019 inaugural flight from Shanghai via Auckland arriving in Buenos Aires<\/b> on <\/span>December 4th <\/b>at 16:45 local time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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More than<\/span> 25 hours earlier,<\/b> but on the same day, at <\/span>02:19 local time on December 4th,<\/b> China Eastern Airlines\u2019 Boeing 777-39P(ER),<\/b> registration <\/span>B-7882,<\/b> took off from Pudong International Airport bound for Auckland,<\/b> where it arrived at <\/span>18:12 local time after a flight of 10 hours and 53 minutes.<\/b><\/p>\n

At <\/span>21:22 local time,<\/b> three hours later, the same plane <\/span>took off for Buenos Aires,<\/b> marking the <\/span>beginning of a new era.<\/b> The <\/span>aircraft had 280 passengers on board,<\/b> an <\/span>88%<\/b> occupancy rate<\/b>, as C<\/span>hina Eastern\u2019s 777-300(ER) aircraft<\/b> are configured with<\/span> 6 seats in Business,<\/b> 52 seats <\/b>in <\/span>Premium Economy<\/b>, and <\/span>258 seats <\/b>in <\/span>Economy<\/b>, for a total of <\/span>316 seats<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After 25 hours and 5 minutes,<\/b> the <\/span>Boeing 777 landed in Buenos Aires<\/b> from <\/span>Shanghai <\/b>via <\/span>Auckland<\/b>, thus <\/span>becoming the world\u2019s longest commercial flight, covering almost 20,000 kilometers.<\/b><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Shanghai \u2013 Auckland leg takes around 11 hours<\/b> and <\/span>covers approximately 9,300 kilometers,<\/b> while the <\/span>Auckland \u2013 Buenos Aires leg takes over 11 hours<\/b> and <\/span>covers more than 10,000 kilometers.<\/b> Considering the stopover in <\/span>Auckland<\/b>, the<\/span> entire flight will take over 25 hours,<\/b> meaning passengers<\/span> will spend nearly a day on the plane.<\/b> Apparently, passengers must disembark in Auckland during the stopover on both legs of the journey.<\/span><\/p>\n

Due to <\/span>winds<\/b>, the <\/span>Buenos Aires-Auckland\u2013Shanghai flight will be longer,<\/b> with the <\/span>first leg (EZE\u2013AKL) taking 13 hours<\/b> and the <\/span>next leg (AKL\u2013PVG) another 12 hours,<\/b> for a <\/span>total flight time of over 28 hours.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Shanghai \u2013 Auckland \u2013 Buenos Aires<\/span><\/h3>\n

Monday<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thursday<\/span><\/p>\n

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Buenos Aires \u2013 Auckland \u2013 Shanghai<\/span><\/h3>\n

Tuesday and Friday<\/span><\/p>\n

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Buenos Aires is once again the only Latin American city connected to all continents.<\/b><\/p>\n

Currently, <\/span>Dubai and Shanghai are its connections <\/b>in <\/span>Asia,<\/b> Addis Ababa <\/b>in <\/span>Africa,<\/b> and <\/span>several cities in Europe, North America, and South America.<\/b> Routes to <\/span>Asia <\/b>and <\/span>Africa<\/b>, as well as some to <\/span>Europe<\/b>, are <\/span>operated with stopovers,<\/b> offering different <\/span>international airlines fifth freedom flights to\/from Buenos Aires.<\/b><\/p>\n

The fifth freedom flights operating in Argentina are the following:<\/span><\/h5>\n