Haven't you ever been on the 767-300ER for a longest flight?
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Haven't you ever been on the 767-300ER for a longest flight?
Haven't you ever been on the 767-300ER aircraft? Haven't you flew on a long flight? More than 6,000 miles.
I took nonstop flight PHX-FRA-PHX on Condor. It is a very long flight. More than 11 hours and coming home more than 12 hours.
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I took nonstop flight PHX-FRA-PHX on Condor. It is a very long flight. More than 11 hours and coming home more than 12 hours.
Please posts your comments.
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Sfo/fra and sfo/China always felt like a 744. Once Sfo/muc on airbus but semi-lame seats that weren’t perfect lie-flat, like A340-400(?) on LH. I can’t actually recall the plane.
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I've done SEA-PVG on the 767-300 on DL, which the day we flew it, clocked in at 12 hrs 27 min gate-to-gate. The route is about 5700 miles by way the crow flies but we were routed on a northern track over Siberia and actually flew over Beijing before turning southeast towards Shanghai, which made our total routing a hair over 6,000 miles flown that day.
ETA: Digging into my Flightmemory, it's actually the third longest flight I've ever taken, only behind LAX-BNE (~7,175 miles, on a VA 777-300ER) and NRT-DTW (~6,390 miles, on a DL 747-400).
ETA: Digging into my Flightmemory, it's actually the third longest flight I've ever taken, only behind LAX-BNE (~7,175 miles, on a VA 777-300ER) and NRT-DTW (~6,390 miles, on a DL 747-400).
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I'm flown a lot of TATL's on 767's although I don't recall the 200 vs 300 mix.
Flew NRT-YYC on an AC 767 in their BusinessFirst cabin. That was a pretty nice ride.
I've always liked the 767s. Nice small J cabins. Fewer terrible Y seats when I'm stuck back there. Easier to board and deplane than the larger planes.
Flew NRT-YYC on an AC 767 in their BusinessFirst cabin. That was a pretty nice ride.
I've always liked the 767s. Nice small J cabins. Fewer terrible Y seats when I'm stuck back there. Easier to board and deplane than the larger planes.
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Never crossed 6000 miles in one, but did these 4:
YYZ IST 5094 AC J (horrible J product)
YYZ TLV 5775 AC Y
IAD EZE 5238 UA J
JFK EZE 5303 DL Y
I always liked the fact you could get the 2 seats in Y, and never had a 3rd wheel.
Shortest 767: GRUGIG 210 miles
YYZ IST 5094 AC J (horrible J product)
YYZ TLV 5775 AC Y
IAD EZE 5238 UA J
JFK EZE 5303 DL Y
I always liked the fact you could get the 2 seats in Y, and never had a 3rd wheel.
Shortest 767: GRUGIG 210 miles
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To add a different perspective than my post above for the OP's question, my longest flight on a 767-300 was on the US military rotator going from the US to Qatar but it was not all in one shot though it was the same plane with only short stops to refuel and re-cater on the way. We did Norfolk Naval Air Station to Shannon, Ireland (3,350 miles), then Shannon to Kuwait (~3,275 miles) then the final short hop from Kuwait to Al Udeid Air Base (~350 miles). Just a hair under 7,000 miles total and just over 13 hours total across all 3 segments and given the way seats are crammed into the rotator, about the most miserable I've ever been on a commercial airliner on the first leg. On the second leg, I noticed that there were a couple open bulkhead seats that offered way more legroom and I moved up to one of the open seats.
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Looks like my longest is 4,464 miles on OS from IAD-VIE.
In the 90s American ran some really long 763s including ORY-LAX and some Deep South America routes but sadly I never got one.
In the 90s American ran some really long 763s including ORY-LAX and some Deep South America routes but sadly I never got one.
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I hate this plane. Incredibly noisy unless you're up front. MIA-EZE was torture. After that hell-trip I refuse to fly those old garbage scows which fortunately AA has retired.
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CDG-SLC, 10 hours 57 minutes, 5080 miles is the longest for me on a 767. It doesn’t rank too high in terms of my longest flights - 26 flights longer than it.
I’m a fan of the 767. Will miss it when it is gone.
I’m a fan of the 767. Will miss it when it is gone.
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JFK to TLV and back, 5,677 miles, in the late 90's. IIRC, it was approximately ten hours to TLV and 12 hours back to JFK.
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In 2011 5008 miles, ISL - JFK on a DL 767. I'm assuming it was a 300. Time was 11:43
I was also on 767-300's mid 2011 LO JFK-WAW and WAW-JFK: 4259miles
IIRC The 300's were previously operated by Zoom air and still had Zoom's markings on the interior and projected onto the video screens. (If not Zoom, some other defunct LCC)
I was also on 767-300's mid 2011 LO JFK-WAW and WAW-JFK: 4259miles
IIRC The 300's were previously operated by Zoom air and still had Zoom's markings on the interior and projected onto the video screens. (If not Zoom, some other defunct LCC)
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I did several runs in the late 1980s on the daily American 767 London to Los Angeles, 5,500 miles, which always seemed quite a haul for one.
Similarly on an American 767 London to Miami, which although about 4,500 miles direct took a notably longwinded route, passing close to Iceland and overhead Labrador and New York City, probably an extra 1,000 miles. Could be due to winds, but equally likely would be some Etops unserviceability which required the aircraft to keep within 1 hour's flying time of an airport.
Like other aircraft, there is plenty of space in the tanks for fuel, it's just that maybe at such extremes you need to leave 10 tons of revenue freight off in order to load an extra 10 tons of fuel. For the same reason aircraft like all-freight 747Fs may be fully loaded up with cargo but can only do say 3,000 miles of range at a time, landing with minimum fuel but at maximum landing weight. On routes like Tokyo to New York the passenger services nowadays are nonstop but the cargo operators, with equivalent aircraft types, invariably stop halfway along at Anchorage to refuel.
Similarly on an American 767 London to Miami, which although about 4,500 miles direct took a notably longwinded route, passing close to Iceland and overhead Labrador and New York City, probably an extra 1,000 miles. Could be due to winds, but equally likely would be some Etops unserviceability which required the aircraft to keep within 1 hour's flying time of an airport.
Like other aircraft, there is plenty of space in the tanks for fuel, it's just that maybe at such extremes you need to leave 10 tons of revenue freight off in order to load an extra 10 tons of fuel. For the same reason aircraft like all-freight 747Fs may be fully loaded up with cargo but can only do say 3,000 miles of range at a time, landing with minimum fuel but at maximum landing weight. On routes like Tokyo to New York the passenger services nowadays are nonstop but the cargo operators, with equivalent aircraft types, invariably stop halfway along at Anchorage to refuel.
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