Overview
- Inaugural flight MU745 landed at Ezeiza on December 4 with 282 passengers after roughly 25–26 hours, a route reported at about 19,800–20,000 km and billed as the world’s longest direct commercial service.
- Regular operations run twice weekly: MU745 departs Shanghai early Mondays and Thursdays and MU746 returns from Buenos Aires on Tuesdays and Fridays.
- The service uses Boeing 777-300ER aircraft and makes a brief technical stop in Auckland where passengers remain on board, qualifying the operation as direct rather than non‑stop.
- Argentina’s Subsecretaría de Transporte Aéreo formally authorized combined passenger and cargo operations in Disposición 42 as part of the government’s open skies policy.
- Published fares start around US$2,150, and DHL Global Forwarding will use the new flights to cut China–Argentina air cargo transit times from about seven days to under 30 hours.