Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has honoured its high flying executive, Andrew Fisher following his record-breaking feat of travelling around the globe in the fastest time and in the fewest number of flights.
Clocking a flying time of 52 hours and 34 minutes, Andrew managed to beat the previous record by 3 hours and 13 minutes, and using only four scheduled commercial flights instead of five to achieve his lifelong ambition.
The Guinness World Records has officially declared his successful attempt a world record.
Etihad Airways said it acknowledged Andrew’s achievement with a reception at its Abu Dhabi headquarters, where the record breaker shared a video and experience of his marathon round-the-world journey, and where colleagues joined in a food fest of culinary delights from the destinations he visited.
Andrew’s journey covered 41,375 km on scheduled flights operated by Air New Zealand, KLM and China Eastern that took him from Shanghai to Auckland; Buenos Aires to Amsterdam; and back to Shanghai.
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