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In 2017 I flew on United’s final 747 flight and it was a truly incredible experience. We were treated to scenic views and a party flight atmosphere that befitted the sending off of The Queen of the Skies. It was easily one of my favorite flights of all time.
9 years ago Mimi and I flew in first class on Qantas 747s between Hong Kong and Melbourne using the incredible AA round-the-world award chart. Since then Qantas removed first class on their 747s and AA killed their round-the-world awards.
Qantas is in the process of retiring their 747s and the final flight for the Boeing 747 “Lord Howe Island” (VH-OJU) will be on October 13th. But there’s a catch, the only way you can book a seat on the flight right now is with Qantas points!
The cost of the one-way flight is 41.9K points+$137 in coach, 72K points+$272 in premium economy, or 96K points+$322 in business class.
A note for Sabbath-observant Jews, the flight departs Sydney at 5pm on Erev Sukkos (Sunset is 7:06pm) and arrives into Los Angeles at 12:50pm earlier that day, so you’ll want to speak to your LOR before booking such a flight.
Will you book a seat on this flight?
HT: Lucky
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How’s sukkos in LA
As Dan indicated in the post, from my research done time back, this is pretty much unanimously understood to be not allowed halachicly…
It’s certainly not unanimous.
Aside from the purely halachic aspect, you would have the same delay concerns as the elal Thursday flights
You mean like something like this (Sunday’s UA694)? https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL694/history/20190825/1835Z/KSFO/PHKO
I actually know a Chasdidishe Rov, who goes to Asia for Kashrus who does this all the time.
He takes off from Asia Friday afternoon, and lands in the USA Friday morning.
Only if flying to the West Coast. That doesn’t happen when flying to East Coast in which case he would land around the same time as takeoff.
Sukkos in LA is usually awesome. Almost never rains.
The best!!
Hot.
Not everywhere in Asia it’s the same. It depends if you will cross the dateline (wherever that may be….) before it gets dark. Even if you do, some poskim are machmir but from Australia iirc it’s unlikely that you will