{"id":167410,"date":"2025-12-04T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167410\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:12:09","slug":"auckland-welcomes-passengers-on-inaugural-worlds-longest-direct-flight-from-china-to-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167410\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland welcomes passengers on inaugural &#8216;worlds longest direct flight&#8217; from China to Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4KW9DOD_China_Eastern_1_1_jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"China Eastern Airlines\u2019 Inaugural Hangzhou \u2013 Auckland Route touches down on November 6th 2023\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nChina Eastern Airlines flight lands at Auckland Airport on 6 November 2023 (file image).<br \/>\nPhoto: supplied \/  Auckland airport\n<\/p>\n<p>Auckland has welcomed the first passengers on what has been dubbed the &#8220;world&#8217;s longest direct flight&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A new China Eastern Airlines service from Shanghai to Buenos Aires landed in Auckland just after 6pm Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland Airport chief executive Carrie Hurihanganui said the new route would boost the New Zealand&#8217;s tourism and business links.<\/p>\n<p>The flight from China to Argentina was expected to take more than 25 hours, with the return journey taking four hours longer.<\/p>\n<p>The service will run twice each week, with passengers enjoying a two-hour stop in New Zealand before continuing on their final leg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China Eastern Airlines flight lands at Auckland Airport on 6 November 2023 (file image). Photo: supplied \/ Auckland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-167410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}