31 Dec 2009

Midnight sun trip to welcome 2010

11:10 pm on 31 December 2009

A Qantas flight from Melbourne is taking 450 passengers south to the Antarctic to welcome in the New Year on a midnight sun sightseeing trip.

A jazz band will keep passengers entertained as the A380 Airbus cruises over icebergs, mountains, glaciers and Antarctic research bases.

A spokesperson for the travel agency that chartered the flight says passengers will see in the New Year several times as the plane crosses various datelines flying figure-of-eight circuits over the continent.