<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by nld88:
To those who would have guessed CO's HKG-EWR route, this flight actually spends more time in the air going westbound, but distance wise it is slightly shorter </font>
When considering the longest route, it's time in the air that matters and not the straight line distance from point to point. The EWR-HKG flight travels straight up above the pole and back down to HKG making it the longest route by any airliner in terms of actual travel time.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">But how much of a breakthrough is Singapore's new slingshot? To find out, we turned to OAG (www.oag.com), the masters of global flight schedules. They publish the definitive worldwide flight guides, and if anyone has obscure airline data, they do. They came through with a list of the 10 longest flights in the world:
1. Newark-Hong Kong on Continental, 16 hours.
2. Chicago-Hong Kong on United, 15 hours 50 minutes.
3. LA-Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific, 15 hours 45 minutes.
4. Delhi-Toronto on Air Canada, 15 hours 30 minutes.
5. LA-Guangzhou on China Southern Airlines, 15 hours 21 minutes.
6 (tie). LA-Melbourne on Qantas, 15 hours 20 minutes.
6 (tie). Atlanta-Johannesburg on SAA, 15 hours 20 minutes.
7 (tie). Taipei-New York on China Airlines, 15 hours 10 minutes.
7 (tie). Hong Kong-Toronto on Air Canada, 15 hours 10 minutes.
7 (tie). Atlanta-Seoul on Korean Air, 15 hours 10 minutes.
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http://www.frommers.com/activities/a...destid=AIRFARE
http://airtransportbiz.free.fr/Networks/COEWRHKG.html
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m.../article.jhtml
FWIW, the longest route in the states is HNL-EWR.
aloha
[This message has been edited by slippahs (edited Jan 02, 2004).]