area. 2. 'Flights to nowhere' became a thing Would-be travelers got so starved of the pleasures of whizzing above the ground in a pressurized tube that when Australian airline Qantas launched a seven-hour sightseeing tour over sights such as Byron Bay and the Gold Coast, it sold out in ten minutes. In Taiwan, these "flights to nowhere" were also combined with on-board speed dating, such as EVA Air's "Fly! Love Is in the Air" campaign, while Thai Airways gave the trend a spiritual edge with a "flight to nowhere" over some of Thailand's Buddhist religious sites.