330lover From Belgium, joined Jul 2008, 504 posts, RR: 1 Posted (4 years 6 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 9298 times:
Hi A.netters
can anyone tell me what are the longest flights ever operated by 330 and 340? Not only regular flights, but also delivery flights or special charter operations?
Thanks for the info
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Kiwiandrew From New Zealand, joined Jun 2005, 8435 posts, RR: 14 Reply 4, posted (4 years 6 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 9118 times:
longest special flight by an A340 that I have heard of was CDG-AKL nonstop followed by AKL-CDG nonstop back in 1993 by a -200 as a demonstration flight - I would be surprised of anything done by an A340 since that has eclipsed that
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CHRISBA777ER From UK - England, joined Mar 2001, 5964 posts, RR: 63 Reply 6, posted (4 years 6 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 9105 times:
I think CX used to op the longest A346 flight which was HKG - JFK, and they have a flight to SYD which is very long for an A333 - longest scheduled A333 flight I heard.
Longest A343 flight would probably be FRA-SCL on LanChile, or maybe even LHR-NRT on VS. AC used to do a weight restricted A343 run to HKG from YVR which was a very long flight.
What do you mean you dont have any bourbon? Do you know how far it is to Houston? What kind of airline is this???
MIgAiR54 From Spain, joined Jun 2007, 1277 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (4 years 6 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 8964 times:
Quoting FlySSC (Reply 1): Longest flight for an A330-200 :
AF272/AF279 CDG-NRT-CDG = 9734 km / 5256 nm / 6048 mi
Wait a moment, Air Europa A330-200 MAD-EZE 10.062km/5.433nm/6.252mi
Quoting Kiwiandrew (Reply 4): longest special flight by an A340 that I have heard of was CDG-AKL nonstop followed by AKL-CDG nonstop back in 1993 by a -200 as a demonstration flight - I would be surprised of anything done by an A340 since that has eclipsed that
FlySSC From France, joined Aug 2003, 7313 posts, RR: 61 Reply 10, posted (4 years 6 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 8812 times:
Quoting Kiwiandrew (Reply 4): longest special flight by an A340 that I have heard of was CDG-AKL nonstop followed by AKL-CDG nonstop back in 1993 by a -200 as a demonstration flight -
Yep ! forgot this one.
It was actually LBG-AKL, on June 17 1993, during the Paris Air Show.
The A340-200 "World Ranger" F-WWBA covered the distance (18541 km / 11521 mi) in 21h31mn.
Kiwiandrew From New Zealand, joined Jun 2005, 8435 posts, RR: 14 Reply 12, posted (4 years 6 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 8763 times:
Quoting FlySSC (Reply 10): Quoting Kiwiandrew (Reply 4):
longest special flight by an A340 that I have heard of was CDG-AKL nonstop followed by AKL-CDG nonstop back in 1993 by a -200 as a demonstration flight -
Yep ! forgot this one.
It was actually LBG-AKL, on June 17 1993, during the Paris Air Show.
DOH! yes , of course it was from LBG not CDG . I had CDG on the brain because I just came back through there the other day
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Aircellist From Canada, joined Oct 2004, 1419 posts, RR: 9 Reply 13, posted (4 years 6 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 8763 times:
Quoting FlySSC (Reply 10): It was actually LBG-AKL, on June 17 1993, during the Paris Air Show.
The A340-200 "World Ranger" F-WWBA covered the distance (18541 km / 11521 mi) in 21h31mn.
I was there in Le Bourget... But I can't remember if it was for the take-off or the landing back!!! Is it already 15 years ?!?!
MAS777 From United Kingdom, joined Jul 1999, 2916 posts, RR: 6 Reply 14, posted (4 years 6 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 8732 times:
Quoting FlySSC (Reply 1): A330-300 is KE flight ICN-PRG : 8258km / 5131 mi
Malaysia Airlines operated the A330-300 KUL-DXB-IST-MAD for some time - whilst not the longest non-stop - this was certainly MH's longest route for this aircraft type.
Ovrpowrd727 From United States of America, joined Sep 2008, 96 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (4 years 6 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 8690 times:
at one point earlier this year and last yr TG operated an A345 non-stop to and fro between BKK and JFK, i don't know the mileage but i'm sure someone can help me out.
SA7700 From South Africa, joined Dec 2003, 2916 posts, RR: 20 Reply 19, posted (4 years 6 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 7621 times:
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Apart from SQ's SIN-EWR-SIN & SIN-LAX-SIN current non-stop commercial flights (A345); SA stumps the rest of the A340 operators with their current non-stop flights (A343 & A346) between IAD-JNB. IAD-JNB = 13091km = 8134mi = 7068nm.
Please correct me if I'm wrong...
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Timz From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 6468 posts, RR: 8 Reply 20, posted (4 years 6 months 3 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 7304 times:
Longest nonstop A330 flight was probably the Toulouse-Melbourne flight (16901 km says FAI) that set the record for distance in the 200-250 tonne class in 2002.
AF272/AF279 CDG-NRT-CDG = 9734 km / 5256 nm / 6048 mi
Qantas
A330-200
QF123/QF124 SYD-BOM-SYD = 10,152 km / 5,482 nm / 6,308 mi
A330-300
QF105/QF106 SYD-PEK-SYD = 8,934 km / 4,824 nm / 5,552 mi
Ooops ! I forgot QF is now N°1 ... sorry !
You're overlooking QF AKL-LAX where the 332 has been used in the past. That's 5652 nm, longer than all the other scheduled 332 routes mentioned so far.
David_itl From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2001, 7144 posts, RR: 14 Reply 24, posted (4 years 6 months 3 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 4815 times:
Does MAN-MAN count? From this website: Airbus's largest and latest airliner, the A340-600, took off from Manchester Airport shortly after noon on Wednesday, November 14, for a 15-hour non-stop proving flight. Departing from Manchester's second runway the aircraft headed East, crossing over Denmark and Sweden to Helsinki in Finland, here it turned North crossing the Arctic Circle to Tromso, at the top of Norway; the aircraft then followed the Norwegian coastline down for a short distance before setting course over the North Atlantic as far as Iceland, where a further course change saw the A340-600 heading South to Ireland then on to Portugal as far as Cadiz before turning East again over Spain to Ibiza, then it was back North again, flying over Paris and London on its way back to Manchester where it touched down in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The routing MAN-CPH-HEL-TOS-KEF-SNN-LIS-LERT-IBZ-CDG-LHR-MAN (LERT=Cadiz, Spain) according to GCM is 10678 km/5766 nm/6635 mi. Don't know how much they diverted from the great circle courses...
WARNING! The post above should be taken with a grain of salt! Furthermore, it may be slightly biased towards A.
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