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kingoftheskies

kingoftheskies

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In Topic: List of Fifth Freedom Flights

13 December 2018 - 01:26 PM

Hainan Airlines operate an once weekly PEK-EDI-DUB-PEK as well as another once weekly PEK-DUB-EDI-PEK in a triangle routing format with EDI-DUB bookable. :)

 

Thank you!  ^_^


In Topic: List of Fifth Freedom Flights

20 November 2018 - 10:39 AM

Thomas Cook Airlines (!) fly MAN-TAB-BGI-MAN. I'm not sure if you can buy tickets for TAB-BGI, but you can definitely buy them for BGI-MAN. The plane makes a round-trip only stopping to let people on and off, for refuelling, and a quick interior clean at BGI, and keeps the same flight number throughout, so arguably it's a MAN-MAN flight :)

 

Hi, thanks for that, however, TAB-BGI isn't bookable on their website. 

 

 

The LATAM flight is LA 896/897, operated by an A320. LA897 goes PUQ-RGL-MPN, while LA 896 continues to Santiago MPN-RGL-PUQ-SCL. According to the Falkland Islands travel specialists wbsite, “ On the second Saturday of each month, you can board the flight at Rio Gallegos in Argentina. On the third Saturday of each month you can disembark in Rio Gallegos.” It is bookable by itself on their website and on OTAs (although really hard to find any dates!) I just don’t know if LATAM Chile and LATAM Argentina are legally separated enough for it to count. They use different IATA codes (LATAM Chile uses LA but LATAM Argentina uses 4M) and Wikipedia describes them as different arilens, but are both in the LATAM Airline Group, which also includes LATAM Brasil, Comobia, Ecuador, Perú etc, so my guess is it counts.
Separately, there is also what is possibly the coolest fifth freedom flight in the world: Macau - Koror, Palau, operated by Lanmei Airlines, a Cambodian LCC on an A319. The flight numbers a LQ9508/9509.

 

Thanks again, however, I wouldn't count the Lanmei Airlines flight a fifth freedom, simply because I can't book it, heck I don't seem to be able to book a flight to Palau on their website. As for the LATAM one, I've added it to the list.