Caryjack From United States of America, joined May 2007, 265 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 12816 times:
According to the Boeing range charts a 772LR can just make Sydney with extra fuel tanks and a 773ER can reach Perth with fuel restrictions. I don't know if anyone flies between these cities but I did read on another posting that few if any carriers had ordered the 772LR with extra fuel tanks.
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Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21679 posts, RR: 23 Reply 3, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 12803 times:
Quoting Haan (Reply 1): Perhaps London to Cape Town 5994nm?????
LHR-CPT is 5209 nm. Your figure is statute miles.
I believe SIN is the longest nonstop from LHR, 5879 nm. Should LHR-EZE nonstop service ever be reinstated (I think BA operated nonstop at one time??) it's 20 nm further than LHR-SIN, 5999 nm.
Zkpilot From New Zealand, joined Mar 2006, 4740 posts, RR: 10 Reply 4, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 12790 times:
QF once flew a 744 LHR-SYD non-stop but that was a special delivery flight... a world record at the time... 9188 nm
LHR-SCL is 6280nm if anyone flies there? LAN perhaps?
PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 9 Reply 5, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 12782 times:
This is the line of 5879 nautical miles from London Heathrow. Other than possibly Santiago, Chile, I don't know of any more distant airports that have a non-stop.
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UAL747 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 12769 times:
The reason I ask is because I wondered if BA will ever need something of the 777LR's or A345's range. But I think that LHR is so well positioned that any airline who operated out of LHR would never need an ULH aircraft for LHR flights. The only route I can think of is LHR-SYD, but we know that no aircraft, even the 777LR is capable of such route throughout the year with unrestricted payload.
SunriseValley From Canada, joined Jul 2004, 4000 posts, RR: 4 Reply 8, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 12638 times:
Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 3): I believe SIN is the longest nonstop from LHR, 5879 nm.
No doubt close enough on a still air basis. A table I have shows about 6000nm by airways routes. However the equiv. still air distance westbound is about 6400nm , quite a significant increase.
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21679 posts, RR: 23 Reply 9, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 12517 times:
Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 3): believe SIN is the longest nonstop from LHR, 5879 nm. Should LHR-EZE nonstop service ever be reinstated (I think BA operated nonstop at one time??) it's 20 nm further than LHR-SIN, 5999 nm.
Just correcting an error in my reply above. LHR-EZE is 120 nm (not 20) further than LHR-SIN.
Aussiestu From Australia, joined Mar 2001, 780 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 12205 times:
Currently I would say that the LHR-SIN route is the longest (and seems it when you fly it) operated by both BA and SQ.
I did read somewhere that VS plan to operate PER and HNL non stop with the new 787 they have ordered? Is this capable and correct? I would say that if VS did operate to PER nonstop then BA would quickly be trying to do the same. PER was not a lose making route for BA they just needed the aircraft to operate to a better money making destination and now code share with QF from SIN. Please correct if appropraite.
Theginge From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2006, 1112 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 11013 times:
As per above I think Singapore is the longest from flight from LHR at the moment. It used to be Hong Kong years ago before China opened up new airways. Before that I think the aircraft had to take a southerly routing across Thailand.
LTU932 From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 13864 posts, RR: 51 Reply 14, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 9557 times:
Quoting Caryjack (Reply 2): According to the Boeing range charts a 772LR can just make Sydney with extra fuel tanks
LHR-SYD nonstop has been extensively discussed here, and while it may be possible for a 77L to make the route nonstop eastbound with heavy payload restrictions, at this stage, flying the westbound sector, SYD-LHR, is nearly impossible to make nonstop mostly because of headwinds.
FlyTUITravel From United Kingdom, joined May 2007, 723 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 9245 times:
Quoting BCA2005 (Reply 15): With BI receiving their 777s there was discussion of them eliminating the DXB stop to BWN. LHR-BWN is 6096 nm, which is longer than LHR-SIN.
You beat me to it! It will definitely be one of the longest routes out of LHR, if not the longest.
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21679 posts, RR: 23 Reply 20, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 5327 times:
Quoting RJ111 (Reply 18): BA have flown to SCL in the past but it may have been via EZE, which is currently the most distant nonstop destination.
Who operates nonstop LHR-EZE? Nobody as far as I know. BA operates LHR-GRU-EZE. I think that makes SIN the longest current nonstop from/to LHR.
Aviateur From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1348 posts, RR: 12 Reply 23, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 4493 times:
It's fun to try and think up incredibly long -- if not quite market-ready -- routings that are not currently flown. What is the longest conceivable nonstop between two major cities? How about Buenos Aires-Seoul? Actually, I wrote an article on this topic, which you can read here...
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Timz From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 6477 posts, RR: 8 Reply 24, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 4371 times:
If you limit it to major cities, hard to beat Buenos Aires to Shanghai.
25 Zkpilot: AKL-LHR (9910nm) or even further is AKL-BCN (10,382nm), AKL-MAD (10,580nm). Vs 10,520nm for EZE-ICN. Thats the great circle, via airways would be eve
26 Fly2CHC: It is now confirmed in Amadeus with eff 3rd December. Nonstop 14hrs 45mins, TPM 7,042 miles
27 FlyTUITravel: Great news. And as predicted, its 3x weekly non-stop 772, 4x weekly 1-stop 763. For anyone whos interested, heres the times: Bandar Seri Begawan BWN
28 VV701: The longest commercial airline flight was a BA 772 charter flight that carried Prime Minister Blair and only 60 other passengers from an EU meeting i
29 Theginge: Think that flight took in the region of 18 hours. They have long legs when they are carrying a light load!
30 Viscount724: It wasn't a commercial flight, but one of QF's first 747-400s flew nonstop LHR-SYD on a delivery/public relations flight in 1989. It took 20 hrs. and
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