Lufthansa's Awesome Falkland Islands Charter Flight

The Polarstern was used in an amazing Arctic research expedition in 2019-2020, called MOSAiC, drifting for a year in sea ice crossing the North Pole in a manner similar to Nansen’s Fram. There’s an excellent documentary film about it.

How much does a charter like this cost?

Wouldn’t docking in S America, Puerto Williams or Ushuaia, and flying commercial be waaay cheaper for the passengers (and massive freight, presumably)?

I’ve flown into MPA a number of times when I was stationed in the Falkland Islands during my time in the British Army. The flight route was then from RAF Brize Norton (BZN) to MPA with a 2 hour stop over on Ascension Island. The flight was operated by Royal Airforce L1011 Tristan’s and the journey time was about 18 hours 15 minutes including the stop over.
The RAF still operate this route on a weekly basis using RAF A330’s.

I assume the passengers all have a lot of extra baggage & equipment and need the extra allowance they wouldn't get on commercial.

As a Lan Chile cabin crew, I flew the Punta Arenas - Mount Pleasant route a couple of times, in a A320.
It is a large air base, and the passengers were mainly British military and some Chilean residents.
I did it 20 years ago, but the flight still exists, it is weekly and I think it is the only regular flight that the Falklands has.

"I’ve long been fascinated by the Falkland Islands,"... themselves boring AF.

Please refer to these islands by their proper name: Las Malvinas.

The Falkland Islands are more than 1500 k from Antarctica

@neal z who administers the Territory? UK. It's Falkland Islands mate. Get it right.

A most ridiculous post designed to provoke a response to your ignorance.

Some have been awarded the SAM with rosette.

Wrong hemisphere me thinks?

Having been awarded the SAM with rosette, one has a comprehensive of the Islands.

Ben,
I applaud your interest in islands, however, if you have visited the likes of the Shetland Islands, the Outer Hebrides or Faroe Islands then these are similar to FI. Notwithstanding, without the penguin colonies.

Being surrounded by hundreds of penguins on these remote islands was one of the most amazing travel experiences in my life.

malvinas! pirates!!

Theres no such place as 'malvinas', please educate yourself before continuing.

When the residents voted, only 3 people voted to degrade themselves, haha.

It's the Falkland Islands, dumba**!

And they are British, not Argentinian.

The danger here is that your post is showing as a top post, and it implies Ben’s post (which I loved) is ridiculous.

Try and take it again. You’ll enter the “find out” phase.

Not wrong, just different and I expect Jack already knows that, but thanks anyway.