The latest pandemic-friendly travel trend – flights that don’t go anywhere

Would you get a flight to nowhere? (iStock/PA)

They say that life is about the journey, rather than the destination – and one pandemic-friendly travel trend is taking that message to the extreme.

Leading Japanese airline All Nippon Airways (ANA) has re-purposed one of its flagship ‘Flying Honu’ planes – a double-decker A380 painted to look like a sea turtle – into a so-called ‘sightseeing flight’ above Tokyo.