Qatar Airways CEO, Akbar Al Baker spoke on this at the Media Conference on Thursday morning, saying "we already stated that we would fly direct to Auckland, and you already saw the reaction from my competition, that they immediately put a flight directly there. We are not going to chicken out, we will definitely fly to Auckland, but as a respect to Emirates, as they have already launched a direct flight, we will wait until the end of the year before we will operate. We were originally supposed to operate in June, but we are now delaying it until the end of the year, but we will certainly go direct from our hub in Doha to Auckland".
I guess this would then be the "World's Longest Flight".
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