11/19/2023 0 Comments 777x routes qantasThe Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner that made the New York to Sydney flight has a quoted range of around 9,200 miles, which it surpassed by carrying far fewer passengers and crew. Technology needs to catch up to that challenge – because there’s not yet a passenger-rated airliner capable of making the trip. If flown, it would be the longest commercial flight ever, so the first to make a widebody passenger journey between those points would be the last to break an ultra-long-haul record. It’s not exactly a popular route, so a business case for such a flight would be hard to make, but it would have scientific merit. Any further and you’d end up going the long way round – which might be an impressive feat, but it won’t be particularly helpful. The longest point-to-point flight possible is from Quito (UIO) in Ecuador to Pekanbaru (PKU) in Indonesia, at around 12,420 miles. So what’s next? Are there any distance records left to break? The Longest Flight Physically Possible It marked a peak in the age of “ultra-long-haul” flights non-stop journeys that employ the longest routes physically possible, topping out at 20 hours of flight time. In October 2019, Qantas Flight 7879 travelled 10,000 miles from New York to Sydney – in 19 hours and 16 minutes.
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