What it was like on board the Qantas supermoon flight to nowhere

And as people on the ground in Australia and New Zealand and parts of the western United States peered up to admire this rare super blood moon eclipse on May 26, perhaps the best view of the astronomical marvel came from 43,000 feet in the sky -- on board a Qantas-operated "flight to nowhere." Crisscrossing the skies above Sydney harbor for three hours, 180 travelers enjoyed a front row seat for this spectacular lunar event. "It was wonderful, I think I've never seen [the moon] in such a way from land," passenger Abdullah Khurram told CNN. Tickets for the flight sold out in 2.5 minutes, as flight-starved Aussie travelers -- currently limited to traveling within the country or to New Zealand as part of the travel bubble -- snapped up the opportunity for a joy ride with a view.