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The longest ever scheduled passenger flight was Air Tahiti Nui's flight TN64 using a Boeing 787-9, flying non-stop from FaaŹ»a International Airport in Papeete, Tahiti to Paris–CDG, [22] a distance of 15,715 kilometres (9,765 mi; 8,485 nmi) in a scheduled duration of 16 hours, 20 minutes. [23]
This list of flight distance records contains only those set without any mid-air refueling. ... formerly the world's longest commercial flight. 2004: February 3, 2004:
Ultra-long-haul flights lasting over 16 hours have been around since the 1930s. While modern jet aircraft travel at faster speeds and cover longer distances, the record for the longest scheduled commercial ultra-long-haul flight route was set in 1943. [7] Some of the historical ultra-long-haul routes include:
Although not the longest by distance, Air China's New York service is the longest passenger 747 trek by flight time at about 17 hours. The longer-ranged Lufthansa and Korean routes reach about 14 ...
Passengers on that flight will be traveling a whopping 9,521 miles—making it the longest by time and distance. On the inaugural flight in October 2018, the plane left late Thursday night ...
With its great-circle distance, it set the record both for world's longest domestic flight as well as the world's longest commercial flight. Air Tahiti Nui began the route on 15 March 2020, departing Faa'a International Airport at 3:14 am local time as flight TN64, flying nonstop to Charles de Gaulle Airport and landing at 6:00 am local time on ...
Singapore Airlines currently holds the title for operating the world's two longest flights at over 9,500 miles each. The 10 longest routes in the world flown by airlines, ranked by distance Skip ...
The European Union defines any passenger flight between city pairs separated by a great circle distance between 1,500 and 3,500 km (800 and 1,900 nmi) to be medium-haul, below as short-haul, and above as long-haul routes.