Flight paths southern hemisphere. Do your homework. Flat baby!
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You're an idiot. That flight path is clearly to Atlanta (Delta's main hub), one on the west coast, Australia and then New Zealand, likely via a codeshare partner. Delta can't just fly from any international destination and most of their international flights have to originate or end in the USA with some exceptions. To get around these limitations some airlines use codeshares to have a foreign airline handle some legs of the flight.
You also have to be aware of ETOPS. 4 engined aircraft are all, but finished in the airline industry and are only surviving in the freight world. With a twin engined aircraft you're limited on how far you can be from a runway if one of your engines were to fail. Think of ETOPS as Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim so your route over water will be effected by that to some extent as well.
Christchurch also is only a city of 400k people so direct international routes wouldn't be viable to many locations.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS
Screenshot the checkout page or be a shill.
You clearly don't fly very often. When in the US I've often flown west on one leg to fly east to my destination, because of hubs and focus cities that airlines base in.
This also covers why Delta (a US airline) wouldn't offer a direct flight from Santiago, you can look at the fifth freedom and see how hard and rare it is to be negotiated.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedoms_of_the_air
The only airlines likely to offer a direct route like that would be Chile's LATAM or Air New Zealand as routes like tht are a big trade issue.
No source no sauce.