A chartered Quantas A380 Airbus filled with 450 passengers is scheduled to take off from Melbourne, Australia, for a “midnight sun” New Year’s Eve flight. Accompanying the passengers, an onboard jazz band, as the carbon emission spewing plane circles over melting icebergs and the shrinking polar ice cap:

An onboard jazz band will keep passengers entertained on the flight as they cruise over icebergs, mountains, glaciers and Antarctic research bases.

Maryline Morini, a spokeswoman for Croydon Travel, which has chartered the flight, said passengers could see in the new year several times as the plane crosses various datelines flying figure-of-eight circuits over the icy continent.

New Year’s party flight over Antarctic