Your Window to Aoraki Mount Cook & Glaciers

Air Safaris ensure each passenger who experiences their 'Grand Traverse' scenic flight has their own window seat!! Fly from Lake Tekapo or Franz Josef.

Come and experience the ‘Grand Traverse’ with Air Safaris and get up close to New Zealand’s highest mountains and largest glaciers viewed from your very own window. 

Air Safaris operate a large fleet of modern aircraft specially suited to scenic flying.  One distinctive difference with their aircraft guarantees all passengers get a window seat for optimum viewing. 

Air Safaris have ensured all their aircraft have single seats up each side so each passenger gets the most out of the ‘Grand Traverse’ flight.

From your own window, the ‘Grand Traverse’ takes you on a journey with the most magnificent scenery showing Lake Tekapo, High Country Sheep Stations through to a Winter wonderland (all year round!). 

View glaciers stretching their way down winding valleys on the East side of the Southern Alps and the West Coast. 

Enjoy being surrounded by mountains and learning about this wonderful area from your pilot while taking your own amazing photos. 

Enjoy the views of the West Coast’s iconic glaciers, Franz Josef and Fox glaciers and as the aircraft turns back to the east, your window is filled with a mountain that is so sheer and inspiring that you can’t help but imagine how challenging this ‘cloud piercer’ must be to climb.

The pilot will ensure you get the best views of this magnificent mountain from close up as well as further away to fit in your camera lens. 

There is nothing quite like seeing this beautiful area on a fantastic clear day from your very own window with Air Safaris.