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Old 18th Oct 2019, 15:35
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Originally Posted by av8sean
World’s longest non-stop flight from US to Australia ready for take-off

https://www.rt.com/business/471228-w...n-stop-flight/

Curious how they crew this flight as well as PER-LHR. Do they use a 6 man crew? 7+7+6 hour shifts seems the most reasonable.
Not sure how the flight crew is organized, but Forbes has this story on the Qantas test flight:

The World’s Longest Direct Flight Takes Off—Clocking In At Nearly 20 Hours

I'm not sure whether any of the guinea-pig employees are consigned to 20 hours in coach seats:

With the time-zone change clocking in at 15 hours between Sydney and New York, Qantas isn’t yet selling tickets for this direct flight.Instead, 40 crew members will be embarking on the journey—departing JFK on Friday night and landing in Sydney on its Sunday morning—to assess behaviours such as how much they move around the cabin, what they eat and how much they sleep, before the airline aims to launch the flights commercially in 2022.
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