https://www.latam.com/en_ue/transparency/airport-transport-agreement-conditions/
Here's their contract of carriage.
I just got a checkout page you fucking idiot. I chose a date in October and had zero problems getting a ticket from Santiago-Auckland-Sydney (12:25 hours in flight and 3:55 in flight) for a direct route, you braindead retard.
I linked to the LATAM site, a fucking major airline and the flag carrier of Chile. They fly to Sydney, however there are very few flights right now and their are a ton of limitations on who can travel on them into Austrailia.
That's the airlines website, dipshit!
Here's LATAM's aircrews getting in trouble in Australia because of covid guidelines.
They definitely fly direct to Australia.
More evidence you're a total fucking retard and should feel shame for being so stupid.
LATAM Airlines Group announced today that it plans to operate three non-stop flights per week from Santiago to Sydney, Australia, by the end of 2019. More details including the start date, itinerary and ticket availability will be communicated in the coming weeks.
https://info.flightmapper.net/flight/LATAM_Airlines_Group_LA_800
LA 800 is an international flight departing from Sydney airport, Australia (SYD) and arriving at Santiago airport, Chile (SCL). The flight runs via Auckland (AKL). The flight distance is 7042 miles, or 11333 km.
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.
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.
There's no reason to launch a satellite to cover down there and even most "satellite" map images are actually from aerial survey aircraft.
It's hard to say what we're seeing in your photo, but Deception Island with that big protect natural harbor seems like a great place for ships to ride out weather, especially since that whole passage down around the tip of South America can be absolutely brutal to cross with notoriously horrible weather and was a huge factor in the HMS Bounty and it's mutiny as they spent a month trying to get around the Horn, before the Captain said fuck it and instead sailed east instead of west.
These guys are just thugs who probably enjoyed cheapshotting and starting fights back when they played hockey. These guys are roided up and rowdy and are going to bash someones face in and it just happened to be this elderly dude that's putting up a pretty good fight all things considered.
Several cities would be burning in the USA if cops treated a black man on his own property that terribly. Funny how Canada pretended to care about BLM and police brutality and now they can't bash an old dudes face in fast enough over him doing what he's always done.
Look out from the cockpit. The high 30's it's beyond obvious. You can also see it on the water easily. There are huge lakes with powerlines on them and the curvature is easy to spot. You can also set up a laser from shore, make it level and point it out over a body of water and then boat further and further out only for the laser to point higher and higher on the boat like in this experiment.
You can see the ISS and Satellites traveling at enormous speeds from the ground. You can also determine their position through radio triangulation or radar if you so desire to show just how far up they're going and how fast they're going.
I've personally witnessed the curvature of the earth and there's damned near infinite ways to prove space, but for some reason less than bright people like yourself would rather believe the most complicated idea and that somehow you've been entitled to the entirety of the truth on it. Up at altitude you can easily witness how quickly the Earths atmosphere thins and you can even witness satellites and the ISS in orbit.
I stopped into one of their locations almost two years ago and it was a ghost town with a lot of empty shelves. I don't know what they were doing staying in business as long as they did, but they were such a cool company.
I've been paying almost half a night what I would have paid in hotels pre-coronavirus. I know some hotels were being extra vigilant and blocking out rooms for a few days after someone checked out of them before giving them to someone else and that costs money too. These hotels are barely in business as they've had no-one in them and honestly if they don't bring back the cleaners they're going to have a hard time charging what they used to when the economy recovers as hotels can get really dirty really quickly. Also hotels don't want the liability of providing food. Most have been doing some to-go breakfast, but they suck ass.
Who was going to spend million more lives to stop the Soviets? America became the richest and most powerful nation by massive amounts by fueling and watching Europe destroy itself and then double down by implementing communism in even more of the continent. We in the US never declared war on Germany until they did to us, it was the English and French that did due to treaties. France got their ass kicked and the UK was on the ropes, becoming hopelessly indebted to the US and losing their empire. The USSR lost 14% of its population from the war, the US lost .32%
Good catch whoever found this. If only Trump supporters browsed NPR they could have captured and posted the articles talking of a riot and violence in the Capitol before Trump ever even spoke.