What's the longest scheduled airline flight?

[Jezzerh]

Qatar are going to start Doha to Auckland. 18 hours non stop. Torture!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cf...

[The jiffle king]

Sydney to Dallas on Friday for me... Satay Heathrow as I need to go to Singapore and the Malaysia first before going to Sydney on Wednesday
Not looking forward to this week!!!

[Crush]

Jezzerh said:

Qatar are going to start Doha to Auckland. 18 hours non stop. Torture!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cf...

Imagine doing that with your chin resting/ impaled (depending on how hard the passenger pushed it back) on the reclined seat in front of you

[Kenty]

From EK news yesterday...

Emirates Announce Direct Dubai – Auckland Service.
28/01/2016
Emirates today announced a direct Dubai – Auckland daily Boeing 777-200LR service to commence on 1st March 2016. Schedules are as follows:

EK448 Dubai 1005 – Auckland 1100+1
EK449 Auckland 2130 – Dubai 0545+1.

This will be the longest scheduled flight in the world.

[hairyben]

simoid said:

Many would prefer 1 x 18 hours over 2 x 9 hours with a break in between, I'm sure.

Flown to oz a few times which always stops somewhere halfwayish (and takes about 30 hours end to end including the connection to canberra), and while it's good to stretch the legs having to do the whole rigmarole of queue to disembark/run around some stupid airport/queue up and shoes and belts off for stupid security/queue up to board again I'd probably rather save a few hours going direct.

Luckily singapore have just announced a service to canberra airport thus eliminating the mel or syd puddle jumper which could be usefull.

[TheGuru]

Kenty said:

From EK news yesterday...

Emirates Announce Direct Dubai – Auckland Service.
28/01/2016
Emirates today announced a direct Dubai – Auckland daily Boeing 777-200LR service to commence on 1st March 2016. Schedules are as follows:

EK448 Dubai 1005 – Auckland 1100+1
EK449 Auckland 2130 – Dubai 0545+1.

This will be the longest scheduled flight in the world.

I believe they will outdo themselves later this year with Dubai-Panama flights which will be even longer.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/emirates-launches-worlds-...

Edited by TheGuru on Monday 1st February 17:14

[Ayahuasca]

TheGuru said:

Kenty said:

From EK news yesterday...

Emirates Announce Direct Dubai – Auckland Service.
28/01/2016
Emirates today announced a direct Dubai – Auckland daily Boeing 777-200LR service to commence on 1st March 2016. Schedules are as follows:

EK448 Dubai 1005 – Auckland 1100+1
EK449 Auckland 2130 – Dubai 0545+1.

This will be the longest scheduled flight in the world.

I believe they will outdo themselves later this year with Dubai-Panama flights which will be even longer.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/emirates-launches-worlds-...

Edited by TheGuru on Monday 1st February 17:14

Yep Emirates Dubai- Panama will be the longest non-stop flight in the world.

[motomk]

Ayahuasca said:

Yep Emirates Dubai- Panama will be the longest non-stop flight in the world.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/emirates-launches-worlds-longest-regular-non-stop-flight-dubai-panama-1541098

Looks like it is the longest as of yesterday but will lose that on March 1.
Dubai-Auckland will be longer in distance on March 1.
Doha-Auckland will be even further when Barcelona Airlines fly it.

Mojocvh said:

dunno about longest but talk about a long way alone..



Aerolineas Argentinas

Edited by Mojocvh on Saturday 30th January 14:17

Aerolineas Argentinas fly the little bit in red over the land, think they used to fly across the Pacific up until a few years ago.
The green would be South African with an A340 and the black would be Air New Zealand with a B777 which I would guess is using all of its ETOPS. The shorter Black track is a B787 from Auckland to Perth.
There is sometimes a Qantas Jumbo south of the green track going from Jo-Burg to Sydney, that is about the closest to it. There is a another Qantas Jumbo that leaves Sydney and heads off south of New Zealand to Santiago in Chile.

[Mojocvh]

motomk said:

Ayahuasca said:

Yep Emirates Dubai- Panama will be the longest non-stop flight in the world.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/emirates-launches-worlds-longest-regular-non-stop-flight-dubai-panama-1541098

Looks like it is the longest as of yesterday but will lose that on March 1.
Dubai-Auckland will be longer in distance on March 1.
Doha-Auckland will be even further when Barcelona Airlines fly it.

Mojocvh said:

dunno about longest but talk about a long way alone..



Aerolineas Argentinas

Edited by Mojocvh on Saturday 30th January 14:17

Aerolineas Argentinas fly the little bit in red over the land, think they used to fly across the Pacific up until a few years ago.
The green would be South African with an A340 and the black would be Air New Zealand with a B777 which I would guess is using all of its ETOPS. The shorter Black track is a B787 from Auckland to Perth.
There is sometimes a Qantas Jumbo south of the green track going from Jo-Burg to Sydney, that is about the closest to it. There is a another Qantas Jumbo that leaves Sydney and heads off south of New Zealand to Santiago in Chile.

It's a shame they have stopped

[grumpy52]

You lot are a load of whinging whineing soft pussies !
We used to do Stansted to Singapore ,piyah libah ,in 36hrs stopping at Istanbul and Bombay .
On one return trip we had hydraulic problems after leaving Istanbul and diverted to Tehran for a 24hr stop for repairs .
This was on Bristol Brittania aircraft .

[David87]

Is there a possibility of a future commercial London to Sydney / Melbourne / Auckland flight? Just how much more range would today's airliners need? I imagine there'd be a fairly big market for it, but then again I'm not much of an expert on these things.

[motomk]

David87 said:

Is there a possibility of a future commercial London to Sydney / Melbourne / Auckland flight? Just how much more range would today's airliners need? I imagine there'd be a fairly big market for it, but then again I'm not much of an expert on these things.

A few years ago, I put that a couple of the current aircraft (B777-200LR and A340-500)could get to Perth, but neither the UK airlines or Oz Airlines have these aircraft. Perth is a bit isolated regarding suitable runways. Sometimes if they can't land there, they have to divert to Adelaide which is as far from Perth as St Petersburg or Casablanca are from London.(I cheated here, had to look them up) Looks like Qantas are thinking of doing it when they get their new B787-9 aircraft.
I have seen an A330 fly from Toulouse to Melbourne non stop but it was a delivery flight so had no passengers. A BA B777 flew the Queen from Perth non stop back to London.
I would guess they need about another 1500nm of range to get to Melbourne/Sydney and another 1000nm on top of that to get to Auckland.

Edited by motomk on Thursday 4th February 13:05

[grumpy52]

Try to get to the Falklands via normal commercial flights if you fancy a challenge, most are forces /chartererd oil company flights via Ascension but these are difficult to come by.
I believe the commercial route is London -Spain ,Spain -Chile ,Chile -Falklands.

[BlackLabel]

*bump*

We have a new leader.

“Singapore Airlines has announced plans to launch the world’s longest commercial flight from 11 October, a non-stop service from Singapore to just outside New York, which will take nearly 19 hours.

The proposed route from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey, will fly approximately 16,700km and overtake the world’s longest existing flight, Qatar Airlines' Doha to Auckland route, which covers 14,500km.”

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co....

[motomk]

BlackLabel said:

*bump*

We have a new leader.

“Singapore Airlines has announced plans to launch the world’s longest commercial flight from 11 October, a non-stop service from Singapore to just outside New York, which will take nearly 19 hours.

The proposed route from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey, will fly approximately 16,700km and overtake the world’s longest existing flight, Qatar Airlines' Doha to Auckland route, which covers 14,500km.”

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co....

If you go back to the first page in 2013, they were the leaders then! but got relegated when they retired their A340-500s, now they're back again!
At work there is a Lan Chile B787 that goes from Melbourne to Santiago, that's a long way from land down there with 2 engines.

[Vipers]

Dont know about the longest, but I flew somewhere in the middle east, all of about 10 minutes ground to ground, in fact I dont think it was that long. Cant be many shorter than that.

[anonymous-user]

Vipers said:

Dont know about the longest, but I flew somewhere in the middle east, all of about 10 minutes ground to ground, in fact I dont think it was that long. Cant be many shorter than that.

The shortest scheduled flight used to be between two of the Orkney islands. My friends Dad used to do it before he got sacked for being an alcoholic.

[Vipers]

El stovey said:

Vipers said:

Dont know about the longest, but I flew somewhere in the middle east, all of about 10 minutes ground to ground, in fact I dont think it was that long. Cant be many shorter than that.

The shortest scheduled flight used to be between two of the Orkney islands. My friends Dad used to do it before he got sacked for being an alcoholic.

That's sorted then.

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/08/worlds-shorte...

Cheers, mine must have been the 2nd shortest

[V8 Fettler]

Longest scheduled non-stop duration? Perth to Trincomalee, 28 hours. It was a few years ago.

[grumpy52]

Not non stop but the RAF used to do a monthly passenger flight from RAF Changi, now Singapore international, to Brize Norton via the USA . The outward route was Brize , Cyprus, Gan then Changi . Not a bad trip for the crews back then . Not sure where the crew swaps took place .