Longest Scheduled Nonstop Commercial Flight?

[L-38]

Emirates Inaugural nonstop - LAX / DXB to debut soon.

Heading East to DXB out of LAX, it's less only about 400 miles zero wind distance than heading West!

Is this the longest regularly scheduled commercial nonstop flight to date?

[Fly3]

Not even close. I think the Singapore Airlines route from SIN to EWR is about 1000nm further.

[anartificialhorizon]

SIN to EWR and SIN to LAX using SQ A340-500 are the longest non stop commercial flights.....

[Will Hung]

Sorry Guys, but where's EWR ?

[Splat]

Google "ewr airport" shows Newark....

[anartificialhorizon]

Newark, New York , US of A.

[dixi188]

Wikipedia (I know its not guaranteed) has

SQ21 EWR-SIN 18hrs 40min on 29-06-04 (8963nm)

EK215 DXB-LAX 16hrs 35min on 26-10-08 (7246nm) (start date)

If this info is correct Emirates doesn't even come close.

Next time I'm onboard I'll try to get the Great Circle distances from our nav kit. Not sure if our database has all these places as we only fly Europe and Middle East,

Fly safe.

[Hot Rod]

"dixi188: Next time I'm onboard I'll try to get the Great Circle distances from our nav kit"

Why dont do it right away instead? Here is a nice site:

Great Circle Mapper (http://gc.kls2.com/)

[no sig]

Handy little GC mapper here....

Great Circle Mapper (http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=sin-ewr%0D%0A&RANGE=&PATH-COLOR=red&PATH-UNITS=nm&PATH-MINIMUM=&SPEED-GROUND=&SPEED-UNITS=kts&RANGE-STYLE=best&RANGE-COLOR=navy&MAP-STYLE=)

[dixi188]

Thanks chaps.

Answer is

SIN-EWR 8285nm.

DXB-LAX 7246nm.

Safe flying.

[checcker10]

They are all too damn far......:hmm:

[anartificialhorizon]

Out of interest what is SIN-LAX?

[The Blu Riband]

and you're a professional pilot? :ugh::ugh:

[Desert Nomad]

Similar to ex lax but made in the far east :}

[anartificialhorizon]

I meant....

What is the time for the SIN -LAX sector !! :ugh:

[anartificialhorizon]

Blu Riband.....

You are not Guard Police in your other life are you?

[el #]

Entire post goes to spotters corner and questions on how long a statute mile are welcomed!

[raffele]

This topic was dealt with a couple months ago! Longest scheduled non stop commercial flight is currently Singapore (SIN) to Newark (EWR). It was in Spotters Balcony I think...

[rebellion]

How long will the EK crews get in LAX?

[the_hawk]

since we're working on spooter's balcony already:

Heading East to DXB out of LAX, it's less only about 400 miles zero wind distance than heading West!

is LAX-DXB heading west really only ~7650nm?

[cirrus17]

ek crew will get 24 hours in lax once it goes daily. just enough time to fall into a zombie-like sleep then stay in the same state for the flight back :ugh:

[el #]

the hawk: East or West are not applicable for LAX-DXB. As you can see with the tool mentioned above, initial heading is 6° North and you go very close to the North Pole.

[yarpos]

you could throw in MEL-LAX 7921 miles

[llondel]

questions on how long a statute mile are welcomed!

For starters it's 80 chains or 320 perches in length.

To turn things around, what's the shortest commercial flight between two different airports?

[longarm]

Shortest Flight

Been done before on pprune I believe. Shortest is Westray to Papa Westray (2 mins). Shortest Jet flight (from the past) I think was Oakland to San Francisco.

[L-38]

Acknowledged - No East / West for LAX-DXB routes. I was calculating relative position via latitude only - obviously not applicable here.

Curiously, LAX and EWR are approx 600 miles apart (when considering SIN-EWR at 8285 miles, and SIN-LAX at 7621 miles). All via the magic of great circle routes.

Many thanks to all for the info exchange.

(My personal shortest jet flight . . LSV (Nellis AFB) - LAS (Las Vegas) in a B727 . . . (eight minutes total block time, chalk to chalk).

[TopBunk]

... and the one furthest from a usable airport is probably Joberg - Sydney

[Seat62K]

I think Continental used to fly between Hobby and Bush - 23 miles!

[Bushfiva]

NW3825 seemed pretty short the last time I took it. And the last time I watched it, I could see it take off and land.

[beamender99]

My personal shortest scheduled jet flight was MBJ KIN with BA.
Everyone belted up and no service for the whole leg - most strange especially in a 747.

Plymouth - Newquay was another short belt up and shut up leg.

[blaggerman]

I think the longest flight over the sea is JNB-IAD I'm sure that LAX-SYD and LAX-MEL beat that.

[PAXboy]

I did the MBJ~KIN in 1989 as the route was: LGW~BDA (IIRC)~MBJ~KIN.

In a BD Saab (I forget the model number) there was DND~EDI which I clocked at 11 minutes wheels to wheels and we could see EDI almost as soon as we lifted off. That was 1998.

With regards to JNB to ORD and over water, I have not done the route but I thnk SAA transists at Abuja or similar in West Africa. I sit to be corrected.