Mystery Flights, or flying in an unknown direction: we tell you all about this new trend

Although this is not a new idea, I mysterious flights o “Mystery flights” to an unknown destination have become a major travel trend since the pandemic because nothing beats the thrill of boarding a plane. not knowing where he will land.

While this may seem like a pointless idea, the truth is that more and more airlines are offering mysterious flights around the world to break the monotony of customers and offer a new travel experience.

What am I mysterious flights?

OUR mysterious flights this is a trend that is gaining popularity again after the pandemic. OUR mysterious flights consist of travel package with a return flight to an unknown destinationway to break the monotony while traveling.

Airlines Hong Kong, Taiwan, Brunei, Japan AND Australia in 2021 began offering “flights to unknown destinations” to popular or well-known destinations with round-trip flights lasting between 1 and 7 hours.

Following the lifting of travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some airlines have begun offering mysterious flights in packages from 1 to 3 nights, without knowing the final destination, each with different attractions and optional activities for travelers.

When was the first one made mysterious flight?

The first mysterious flights were launched in 1990s by airlines such as Australian Airlines (now Qantas) and KLM. to fill flights: travelers showed up at the airport and got a seat on a scheduled flight to any of the airline’s destinations, where they had a rest day before flying home.

Then, in 2021, the aforementioned Australian airline Kantas was the first to take me mysterious flights with destinations such as Sydney Harbor, Great Barrier Reef, Uluru and Bondi Beach. Tickets for these flights were sold out in just 10 minutes.

How do they work mysterious flights?

While each airline has own rules usually I mysterious flights they work like this:

• You choose travel datedays of stay at the destination and is booked through the airline.
• The airline sends time and number of flights 3 days before the trip plus the itinerary that cannot be seen before the day of the trip.
• On the day of travel, the passenger must report to the airport for fly and enjoy the surprise destination.

Which airlines offer mysterious flights?

Currently, these are airlines, they offer mysterious flights Worldwide:

• Virgin Australia and Qantas Australia with flights to more than 20 destinations, including Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Newcastle and Canberraincluding accommodation and transfer.
• Lufthansa in Europe with flights to destinations such as Dublin, Pamplona, ​​Krakow, Riga, Warsaw and Tallinn, as well as special packages for Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Venice and Budapest.
• Peach Aviation is a subsidiary of the Japanese airline All Nippon Airways.with 11 destinations from Tokyo: Memanbetsu, Kushiro, Sapporo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Oita, Nagasaki, Miyazaki, Amami, Okinawa and Ishigaki.

Now that you know more about mysterious flights, Would you dare to go on a mysterious journey?

The original article was published on AD Mexicoadapted by Paola Corazza.