aviateur From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1347 posts, RR: 12 Posted (6 months 4 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 1101 times:
Okay, with Singapore Airlines announcing cancellation of BOTH of the world's longest scheduled flights, it's time for a new and "official" ranking of the ten longest. This topic has been done to death on this site, but this is a substantial change/shake-up.
Below is the list I've got. Can anybody clarify?
Here's the criteria, so there should not be any controversy:
-- Nautical miles (flight times are too fickle) according to the Great Circle Mapper http://gc.kls2.com
-- nonstop
-- scheduled
-- passenger carrier
-- one-way or round-trip, seasonal or year-round, it doesn't matter
-- New York and Newark (see 7, below, can be counted together)
Concordski From United States of America, joined Sep 2008, 79 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (6 months 4 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 925 times:
Just nitpicking a little but ATL-JNB is the longest route that is nonstop in both directions. Doesn't affect your ranking based on your guidelines but just wanted to specify that the westbound DFW-SYD makes a scheduled stop in BNE.
Disappointing SQ can't keep up their long routes. Hopefully they'll be back at some point in the future.
aviateur From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1347 posts, RR: 12 Reply 3, posted (6 months 4 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 814 times:
Quoting PRFlyer (Reply 2): Yep. Inaugural flight is on Nov. 30th. It is now bookable in PR's online booking system. Just don't know how long it will last.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I remember Thai's BKK-JFK route a few years ago. Seemed like a great idea, but it didn't last very long.
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Since you're including SYD-DFW which only operates in one direction, you should also include DFW-BNE (7215 nm) which also only operates in one direction. I believe it then becomes 4th longest.
aviateur From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1347 posts, RR: 12 Reply 5, posted (6 months 4 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 787 times:
Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 4): Since you're including SYD-DFW which only operates in one direction, you should also include DFW-BNE (7215 nm) which also only operates in one direction. I believe it then becomes 4th longest.
Yeah, that'd be correct, but I hate doing it, seeing that it's technically part of QF's SYD-DFW service. Very annoying!
PS
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CXfirst From Norway, joined Jan 2007, 2704 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (6 months 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 760 times:
Quoting aviateur (Reply 5): Yeah, that'd be correct, but I hate doing it, seeing that it's technically part of QF's SYD-DFW service. Very annoying!
Well, if you ask for longest routes, then possibly you could skip the DFW-BNE flight (but then you'd need to include all routes with a stop, like QF SYD-SIN-LHR, etc.)
But, if this list is the longest non-stop flights (which it really is), then there is no way you can decide not to include DFW-BNE, as this is one of the worlds longest non-stop flights.
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