gilesdavies From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 2884 posts, RR: 1 Posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 18219 times:
Hi Guys
There are regularly threads on here about the longest and shortest routes, what aircraft/airline flies them, etc, on here and thought this Wikipeadia page I came across could be of interest. to the many...
It covers everything possible, about these questions...
Telling you about the longest Ultra Long Haul Routes, shortest routes, longest routes operated by each aircraft type, etc...
As it is Wikipedia, if you think there is information missing on there or need correcting, why not update the page concerned as this is a beauty of Wikipedia.
InnocuousFox From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2805 posts, RR: 16 Reply 1, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 17846 times:
Interesting when you compare the first two. EWR to Singapore is only 1.5 hours longer than LAX to Singapore. East-West distance doesn't matter when you are, for all intents and purposes, going NORTH!
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SCL767 From Chile, joined Feb 2006, 8272 posts, RR: 5 Reply 5, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 16138 times:
Quoting ferminbrif (Reply 3): very interesting indeed, so the longest from europe is AF-406 CDG-SCL 11652km on B-772ER......
The CDG-SCL route is the longest route in the AF/KL network. FRA-SCL used to be the longest route in LH's network before LH dropped SCL as a destination, (LH used to operate FRA-SCL non-stop with the A346).
wn700driver From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 15359 times:
Quoting YYZAMS (Reply 2):
Great post! Hopefully this will stop all those other "questions" that seem to pop up about this topic ever 3 or 4 days
Why would you want to do that? This is an Airline Enthusiast web site! I know you're going to see a lot of "stupid" questions here (esp if you are used to posting regularly in Tech/Ops), but some of the most interesting discussions often come out of these. I'd hope we're not stifling that to easily these days... Perhaps we are. Anyway, on that note...
jah718 From Ireland, joined Sep 2009, 25 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 13706 times:
Interesting to see that the longest flight currently operated by the 772LR is only 10 minutes longer than the longest flight operated by a 773ER. Clearly not being used to its full potential. Great link by the way.
CARST From Germany, joined Jul 2006, 706 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 13152 times:
Quoting jah718 (Reply 7): Interesting to see that the longest flight currently operated by the 772LR is only 10 minutes longer than the longest flight operated by a 773ER. Clearly not being used to its full potential. Great link by the way.
That must not be true. I assume that the 77L can operate it's longest route with a much higher payload (measured in percentage to its maximum payload) compared to the other 777 variants.
So the 77W probably operates its longest flight payload restricted, why the 77L is much closer to maximum payload.
Irishpower From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 377 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 13122 times:
Why is it that the flight times advertised are always longer than the actual flight time? Are they talking worst case scenario) with headwinds? Are they talking the time it takes to board the plane and then get off?
I have flown 3 flights on the top 30 list and on all of them the flight time was 30-75 minutes less than advertised.
ltbewr From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 12337 posts, RR: 12 Reply 10, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 13037 times:
Quoting Irishpower (Reply 9): Why is it that the flight times advertised are always longer than the actual flight time? Are they talking worst case scenario) with headwinds? Are they talking the time it takes to board the plane and then get off?
I have flown 3 flights on the top 30 list and on all of them the flight time was 30-75 minutes less than advertised.
Some reasons: To allow sufficient time for frequent delays at certain busy airports due to departures/arrival at peak times or common weather issues that can cause delays, so enought time must be built in for such events.
ogre727 From Spain, joined Feb 2005, 693 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 10578 times:
Quoting SCL767 (Reply 5): Quoting ferminbrif (Reply 3):
very interesting indeed, so the longest from europe is AF-406 CDG-SCL 11652km on B-772ER......
The CDG-SCL route is the longest route in the AF/KL network. FRA-SCL used to be the longest route in LH's network before LH dropped SCL as a destination, (LH used to operate FRA-SCL non-stop with the A346).
B737900 From United States of America, joined Aug 2010, 146 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 9438 times:
Very interesting topic. With regards to the shortest scheduled flight. I have a nominee. Molokai Air Tours might qualify for one of the shortest. While visiting Molokai, Hawaii we booked a flight from Kalaupapa (the leper colony) to Hoolehau (MKK). Both airports are on Molokai. We planned to hike down to the colony and fly out. You could fly either direction or r/t. The agent said that the flight would be about 7 minutes!! Let's go. Unfortunately the flight was cancelled due to high winds so we did not hike down. After looking at the Wikipedia I didn't see this flight. Any comments on why?
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laxboeingman From United States of America, joined Mar 2008, 385 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 8956 times:
I think that is very cool, and I am not that big of a Wiki fan. The general theme seems to be flights from the East or West coast of the United States to Asia and Africa. Very good find.
goblin211 From United States of America, joined Jun 2010, 1209 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 8368 times:
Very interesting. I posted a topic a while back similar to this and this was the link someone on here gave me. It kind of surprises me that the EWR-SIN route goes to EWR and not JFK.
AirGabon From Switzerland, joined Dec 2003, 852 posts, RR: 3 Reply 20, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 7006 times:
For A321 I thought that non-stop Bmed/BMI flights from London to Bishkek or Almaty were the longest, pushing the limits? Also the previous A321 flight operated by Air Ivoire non-stop from Abidjan to Paris-Orly was longer?
BNAOWB From United States of America, joined Dec 2009, 350 posts, RR: 1 Reply 23, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 6465 times:
I agree that this Wiki page is quite interesting.
Also, for those that have not seen it, here is a link to a very comprehensive list of the World's 100 longest flights that is updated at least monthly: World's Longest Flights, 2nd Edition (by yeogeo Mar 27 2011 in Aviation Polls)
trex8 From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 3970 posts, RR: 14 Reply 24, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 5829 times:
CIs LHR-TPE is longer than the LX ZRH-HKG showing for longest A343
25 comorin: I thought it was the hump too - area rule.
26 irelayer: Hey thanks for saying this! It is lost on a lot of people. -IR
27 GSPflyer: It surprises me too, since the article states the route began in 2004 (since Wiki can be wrong, can anyone confirm this is correct?). They probably w
28 huxrules: I was looking for the shortest flight for Continental. They didn't have one listed - I'm guessing between IAH and AUS or CLL. However Continental used
29 Viscount724: Many routes that don't involve Europe are much longer than CDG-SCL. Europe's geographic location minimizes the need for ultra longhaul aircraft by ca
30 TruemanQLD: Unless they make one that can get from Europe to SYD/MEL all year long in both directions
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