kl692 From Canada, joined Feb 2006, 651 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 3525 times:
Just wondering about the longest route serve by airline, I was reading article and stated that LH have beening serving ACC for over 40 years and it made wonder which airline have the record for serving a route the longest in years.
Just beat me to the post. If you count Imperial Airways as BA, I think it was operating DH-89s from LHR to Paris (not sure which airport) from about the '30s and is obviously still going today.
VV701 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2005, 6617 posts, RR: 17 Reply 5, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 1 day ago) and read 3446 times:
Quoting RWA380 (Reply 1): Two I can think of off the top of my head, LON-PAR & SFO-HNL
Aircraft Transport & Travel Ltd started the first sustained commercial aircraft service when it operated a DH16 two-seat converted bomber between Hounslow Heath (now known as LHR) and Le Bourget (LBG) on 25 August 1919. The flight carried one passenger, some mail, some grouse and some Devonshire cream.
KL577 From Netherlands, joined Oct 2006, 746 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 1 day ago) and read 3362 times:
Most 'obvious' candidates in Europe were stopped during WW2 (like LON-PAR and AMS-LON), so the winner is probably a route somewhere in the US.
Some longstanding KLM routes to take note of:
AMS-NYC (started in 1946, first transatlantic scheduled service to NYC after WW2).
I believe flights between Amsterdam and Batavia/Jakarta resumed in the fall of 1945?
One of my favourites: KLM started operating flights to Kano, Nigeria in 1947 and they still do today (although rumour has it that operations to Kano may not last very long......)
burnsie28 From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 7411 posts, RR: 9 Reply 9, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 3028 times:
What about MSP-ORD, pax wise started in 1928 but has been served since 1926, originally started by NW and continues today at DL.
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EWRandMDW From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 379 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 2960 times:
Quoting burnsie28 (Reply 9): What about MSP-ORD, pax wise started in 1928 but has been served since 1926, originally started by NW and continues today at DL.
It's more accurate to say MSP-Chicago as ORD didn't exist until WW2 (Orchard Field). Other old routes are Chicago-Newark, Boston-Newark, Washington-Newark, etc which have been around since the late 1920s or early 1930s when NYC had no commercial airports within its own city limits!
JQflightie From Australia, joined Mar 2009, 877 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 2729 times:
QF started in an outback town in North Queensland, Australia, called Longreach LHE 92years ago, servicing a mail/pax route from there to BNE (via intermediate ports, but destination being BNE) and still to this day QantasLink operates BNE-LHE thats a pretty amazing feat!
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ltbewr From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 12329 posts, RR: 12 Reply 12, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 2521 times:
Quoting EWRandMDW (Reply 10): It's more accurate to say MSP-Chicago as ORD didn't exist until WW2 (Orchard Field). Other old routes are Chicago-Newark, Boston-Newark, Washington-Newark, etc which have been around since the late 1920s or early 1930s when NYC had no commercial airports within its own city limits!
EWR's commercial status was suspened during WWI, it was a Naval Air Station then and was closed for several months in the early 1950's due to a series of crashes so not continious service.
Quoting JQflightie (Reply 11): QF started in an outback town in North Queensland, Australia, called Longreach LHE 92years ago, servicing a mail/pax route from there to BNE (via intermediate ports, but destination being BNE) and still to this day QantasLink operates BNE-LHE thats a pretty amazing feat!
Yes, but was this route suspended during WWII? Most likely it was or operated under the RAAF and not a commercial service.
Quoting rutankrd (Reply 8): I believe the longest served my well actually be by Avianca from Bogotá to Barranquilla uninterrupted since 1929 !
This might be the winner as it was probably not disrupted during WWII.
bohica From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 2407 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 2408 times:
Quoting burnsie28 (Reply 9): What about MSP-ORD, pax wise started in 1928 but has been served since 1926, originally started by NW and continues today at DL.
Actually WA started pax service LAX-LAS-SLC in 1926. The LAX-LAS leg is still served today by DL CXN, and the LAS-SLC leg is still served by DL mainline.
TCASAlert From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 14, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 2266 times:
Well as the OP does not state the longest continuous service (due to wars etc), rather the longest route served by an individual airline (and still operated by that airline), I would imagine the winner is AMS-LON with KLM, they have operated the route since 7 October 1919.
n901wa From United States of America, joined Oct 2009, 382 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 2189 times:
That is true. In Los Angeles, it was Vail Field in Montebello CA and was a oiled strip. Las Vegas was Western Air Express Airport that is now part of Nellis AFB, and Woodward Field in Salt Lake City is the persent site for SLC. The route is still LAX to SLC and was started as CAM-4 Air Route with WAE on April 17 1926, and and started carring PAX May 23 1926. That route is still being flown by Delta
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21460 posts, RR: 24 Reply 19, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 2180 times:
Quoting VV701 (Reply 5): Quoting RWA380 (Reply 1):
Two I can think of off the top of my head, LON-PAR & SFO-HNL
Aircraft Transport & Travel Ltd started the first sustained commercial aircraft service when it operated a DH16 two-seat converted bomber between Hounslow Heath (now known as LHR) and Le Bourget (LBG) on 25 August 1919. The flight carried one passenger, some mail, some grouse and some Devonshire cream.
BA can trace its origins back to AT&T.
However, as already mentioned, London-Paris was interrupted druing WWII, unlike many U.S. domestic routes that started in the 1920s and have operated continuously since, and I think in some cases to/from the same airports at both ends of the route, unlike Paris Le Bourget which hasn't had scheduled service for over 30 years.
jetblue777 From United States of America, joined Jul 2009, 1427 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 2156 times:
Quoting KL577 (Reply 6): Some longstanding KLM routes to take note of:
I think KL has also been serving MNL since the 1950s.
Speaking of MNL, NW started serving the city in the 1930s with a DC-4 IIRC, and until now DL still serves MNL with 2 744s to NRT and NGO/DTW.
akiestar From Philippines, joined May 2009, 599 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (1 year 3 months 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 2109 times:
AMS-MNL has been in service for over sixty years, and PR has been flying to SFO since 1946. Granted however, PR did stop all international service for a year of two, only to be restarted again because the government deemed it a matter of national policy.
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