Qantas selling tickets for ‘supermoon flight to nowhere’

(CNN) — Qantas is offering a new “flight to nowhere” that will give travel-starved Australian residents the chance to admire the late May supermoon and full lunar eclipse from over 40,000 feet in the sky.

If you were hoping to nab tickets, you’re out of luck — the airline says they were snapped up in “record time” — 2.5 minutes to be exact.

The supermoon flight is the latest in a series of Qantas-operated trips that take travelers up for a joy ride, before returning them right back to where they came from.

Tickets for the supermoon flight started at AUS $499 for an economy ticket (US…