At 18:12 local time on December 4, China Eastern Airlines flight MU745, which took off from Shanghai Pudong International Airport, landed in Auckland, New Zealand. The plane will stop in Auckland for 2 hours and 25 minutes before flying to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. This route, which spans the eastern and southern hemispheres and has a voyage of about 20,000 kilometers, has set a new record for the longest one-way route in the world and shortened the voyage from China to South America by more than four hours. The new route has filled the gap in direct flights from Shanghai to core cities in South America, built a “southbound channel” flight path across the Pacific Ocean, and reshaped the way air travel is carried out between the three continents. The route is operated by large Boeing 777-300 wide-body airliners, and outbound MU745 flights operate once every Monday and Thursday.

At 18:12 local time on December 4, China Eastern Airlines flight MU745, which took off from Shanghai Pudong International Airport, landed in Auckland, New Zealand. The plane will stop in Auckland for 2 hours and 25 minutes before flying to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. This route, which spans the eastern and southern hemispheres and has a voyage of about 20,000 kilometers, has set a new record for the longest one-way route in the world and shortened the voyage from China to South America by more than four hours. The new route has filled the gap in direct flights from Shanghai to core cities in South America, built a “southbound channel” flight path across the Pacific Ocean, and reshaped the way air travel is carried out between the three continents. The route is operated by large Boeing 777-300 wide-body airliners, and outbound MU745 flights operate once every Monday and Thursday.