Qantas has been closely watching rival Air New Zealand’s nine months of flying between Auckland and New York and has learned lessons from it. “We’ve chatted with Air New Zealand and where we always work together is with safety. “It’s a tight timeline to have these flights on time and we’ve really learned that from Air New Zealand,” she said before a New York launch event in Sydney. Research for the Auckland-New York flights has been under way for two years analysing weather patterns and possible flight tracks. There would be four pilots on the New York flights and they would determine the roster for flying shifts themselves, she says.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 11, 2023 15:55 UTC