Longest flight you have taken?
Oct 21, 2016, 9:58 am
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Oct 21, 2016, 4:46 pm
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Some FTers do the inaugural world's longest flight SIN-EWR vv.
SIN-EWR with immediate turn-around EWR-SIN. It was great fun.
SIN-EWR with immediate turn-around EWR-SIN. It was great fun.
Oct 21, 2016, 6:55 pm
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DFW-HKG on AA this past April in MCE. I believe it was blocked at 16H 45M but we finished in just over 16 hours. It looks like I'll be setting a new longest flight record this coming February when I do DFW-SYD on QF, currently blocked at 17H 10M.
Oct 21, 2016, 8:52 pm
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Wait what?
Some FTers do the inaugural world's longest flight SIN-EWR vv.
SIN-EWR with immediate turn-around EWR-SIN. It was great fun.
SIN-EWR with immediate turn-around EWR-SIN. It was great fun.
I have done BOM DOH IAH (24 hrs in town) and them IAH - CDG - BEY and considered one of the most stupid travel decisions in my life, but this was an extreme choice to make...
Oct 22, 2016, 4:32 am
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Single flight:
For me: SIN-LHR with BA (somewhere in 1987).
More recently: SIN-AMS with SQ.
In both cases a very long night.
I have booked EK AMS-DXB-AKL, the latter leg being the longest flight I ever made.
Total flight duration:
1990: AMS-YYZ-HNL-SYD with 7 hours layover in YYZ with AC (then called CP, Canadian Pacific which is now part of AC). The flights were operated by DC10s. I had to transfer my checked baggage myself in YYZ and I managed to prevent staff labeling my luggage to Sydney in Newfoundland (which is a domestic flight) and not Sydney in NSW where I was going.
It was a total flying time of 30 hours plus 7 hours layover in YYZ and 1 hour stop in HNL. To make things worse, I arrived at 6:00 in SYD to be a whole day stayed up. But the next day my biological clock was reset and jet lag was over.
I hate arriving early in the morning, even when no timezone difference between origin and destination.
About sleeping: I use sleeping pills on long flights. When awake I have to get out at least every 2 hours and make a short walk through the aisles.
So I don't understand many people sitting for several hours .... for me is 2 hours sitting the absolute maximum (unless when sleeping).
For me: SIN-LHR with BA (somewhere in 1987).
More recently: SIN-AMS with SQ.
In both cases a very long night.
I have booked EK AMS-DXB-AKL, the latter leg being the longest flight I ever made.
Total flight duration:
1990: AMS-YYZ-HNL-SYD with 7 hours layover in YYZ with AC (then called CP, Canadian Pacific which is now part of AC). The flights were operated by DC10s. I had to transfer my checked baggage myself in YYZ and I managed to prevent staff labeling my luggage to Sydney in Newfoundland (which is a domestic flight) and not Sydney in NSW where I was going.
It was a total flying time of 30 hours plus 7 hours layover in YYZ and 1 hour stop in HNL. To make things worse, I arrived at 6:00 in SYD to be a whole day stayed up. But the next day my biological clock was reset and jet lag was over.
I hate arriving early in the morning, even when no timezone difference between origin and destination.
About sleeping: I use sleeping pills on long flights. When awake I have to get out at least every 2 hours and make a short walk through the aisles.
So I don't understand many people sitting for several hours .... for me is 2 hours sitting the absolute maximum (unless when sleeping).
Oct 22, 2016, 2:05 pm
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DOH-DFW in J on QR: 7,932 miles and due to vectoring to avoid DFW storms, 15hr25. Of course that was only about 40% of the trip, the whole portion was SYD-DOH-DFW-RDU.
Oct 23, 2016, 3:21 am
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Curious - why does the Wikipedia article show top 30 (by distance) topped by EK449 at 14,203km, but then under longest by airline show AI at 15,142km and under longest by aircraft type show UA179 at 14277km?
It also shows the longest 777-200LR at 14191km, then the longest by airline for both AI and EK at longer on the same aircraft type? (EDIT: noticed the EK longest is the same flight at the LR longest, but different distances)
It also shows the longest 777-200LR at 14191km, then the longest by airline for both AI and EK at longer on the same aircraft type? (EDIT: noticed the EK longest is the same flight at the LR longest, but different distances)
Oct 23, 2016, 3:30 am
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Longest trip FLL-MNL done at least once a year every year since 2000, with up to 4 times a year from 2001 to 2004 due to an adoption from family members through the Philippine courts. Time wise the longest was 26 hours out with connections in DTW and KIX, early 2000's with NW. Longest single flight ATL-ICN on a KE 747 in 2012 15.75 hours with JFK-ICN on a KE A380 close behind at 15.25 hours in 2013 (Snowstorm of the century)
Maybe it is because it is all we can afford. That is the best thing about flying today versus back before the turn of the century. I was married to my Filipina (and still am at 30 years next June) wife for 13 years before finally getting to meet her family members who still lived there because US Immigration will not grant them tourist visas to come to our wedding. We could not afford the trips before that because of the prices. Now we have miles that also offset our costs that we use.
Maybe it is because it is all we can afford. That is the best thing about flying today versus back before the turn of the century. I was married to my Filipina (and still am at 30 years next June) wife for 13 years before finally getting to meet her family members who still lived there because US Immigration will not grant them tourist visas to come to our wedding. We could not afford the trips before that because of the prices. Now we have miles that also offset our costs that we use.
Oct 23, 2016, 4:03 am
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Oct 23, 2016, 6:52 am
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Curious - why does the Wikipedia article show top 30 (by distance) topped by EK449 at 14,203km, but then under longest by airline show AI at 15,142km and under longest by aircraft type show UA179 at 14277km?
It also shows the longest 777-200LR at 14191km, then the longest by airline for both AI and EK at longer on the same aircraft type? (EDIT: noticed the EK longest is the same flight at the LR longest, but different distances)
It also shows the longest 777-200LR at 14191km, then the longest by airline for both AI and EK at longer on the same aircraft type? (EDIT: noticed the EK longest is the same flight at the LR longest, but different distances)
Oct 23, 2016, 1:58 pm
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The flights in the chart are listed by orthodromic distance, i.e. great circle route. The actual route, that the plane flies on many of these routes, fluctuates daily. The great circle route for SFO-DEL is just over 7700 statute miles, which wouldn't make the top-30 most likely. Listing it as first in the chart is incorrect by the standards of the chart. That said, there seems to be quite an edit war going on discussing this. At the time I posted the chart, the Air India flight was not listed first.
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=dxb-akl...xb&MS=bm&DU=km
I am curious how much the A380 (starting next week) will affect duration of this flight.
And 'longest flight' means longest in time: westbound costs more than eastbound, in this case it differs 1 hour.
On the route SFO-DEL, the 'detour' over Anc makes only 39km difference.
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Oct 23, 2016, 9:55 pm
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I flew QF 7/8 last year when they were the longest flights in the world, QF8 being longer due to headwinds. I feel like all Y passengers should get a certificate upon deplaning in SYD that says "I survived QF 8"
I don't remember how much I slept, I have difficulty sleeping on planes, but I think since it's a night departure, about 5 or 6 hours into the flight, after a meal and couple movies I hit the point where my body couldn't go any longer without sleep so I was able to sleep for at least a few hours, I really don't remember how long. But the DFW-SYD leg really wasn't that bad, oddly enough, it didn't seem worse than a TATL flight, even though it's twice as long.
The return, QF 7 was just brutal though, even though it's about an hour shorter. Maybe it was the afternoon departure - it was probably a good 12 or 13 hours into the flight until my body was like "Okay, F this, I'm too tired, I want to sleep" but at that point, the final meal service is starting soon and it's bright outside. Pus, my trip began that morning in MEL and ended 24 hours later in STL.
I don't remember how much I slept, I have difficulty sleeping on planes, but I think since it's a night departure, about 5 or 6 hours into the flight, after a meal and couple movies I hit the point where my body couldn't go any longer without sleep so I was able to sleep for at least a few hours, I really don't remember how long. But the DFW-SYD leg really wasn't that bad, oddly enough, it didn't seem worse than a TATL flight, even though it's twice as long.
The return, QF 7 was just brutal though, even though it's about an hour shorter. Maybe it was the afternoon departure - it was probably a good 12 or 13 hours into the flight until my body was like "Okay, F this, I'm too tired, I want to sleep" but at that point, the final meal service is starting soon and it's bright outside. Pus, my trip began that morning in MEL and ended 24 hours later in STL.