Air New Zealand will make history Friday night when Flight 27 departs Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport at 7:10 p.m. local time bound nonstop for Auckland, New Zealand more than 8,200 miles and 16 hours away.
The new route will instantly become the longest nonstop commercial flight in the history of O’Hare and the longest ever flown by Air New Zealand, which is no stranger to long-haul flying.
Air New Zealand will fly the new route on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, one of the newer stretch…
