Originally Posted by
eleri5
Have there ever been nonstop flights from the UK to New Zealand?
A Kiwi colleague of my Dad's says he remembers doing the journey on a 747 in the 1970s but surely it would have needed at least one stop.
Never a commercial operation. Colleague probably thinking of the Air New Zealand operation stopping at Los Angeles. In the 1970s it was a DC-10.
Airbus did a test flight nonstop Toulouse - Auckland - Toulouse with an A340-300 in the A340s early days. IIRC it routed outbound over Asia and returned over North America.