Longest Scheduled Route in the World

[Taildragger67]

Hi

Anyone got any ideas as to what is currently the longest scheduled air route in the world? Is it MEL-LAX? LAX to MEL takes about 15hrs 20, is this also the longest scheduled flight time?
Thanks

[Dave T-S]

I seem to remember seeing a program on telly a while back that there was an Air New Zealand flight that claimed this - was it a 747SP into Auckland from Heathrow?

[Girt_bar]

I think I saw something on the BBC. "Airshow" I think it was.
The show had a story about NZ1 which she said was the longest scheduled flight. Between LHR and LAX However, it is obviously not direct with a tech stop in LAX.

Air NZ has never had the SP

[Taildragger67]

Thanks for those replies.

Sorry I wasn't clear - I meant single-sector.

Thanks... TD67

[Dave T-S]

Yes, sorry, you are right about the SP - ANZ has -400's.

I was getting mixed up with the SP doing the record longest delivery flight - March 23/4, 1976 flew nonstop from Paine Field, Washington State to Cape Town - 8940nm.

There's a lot of info crammed in my tired old brain (most of it useless), and sometimes it gets a bit jumbled;)

[newswatcher]

UA821 was doing JFK to HKG in 15h 40m last year(13,580Km). Don't know if it survived 11/9.

[Gaston777]

I can tell you the longest route for Air France is from Paris to Santiago, Chile with about 6300nm
We now land at Buenos Aires on the way, but a few months back it was direct. Took us 15h35mn the only time I did it, and it is one of only three destinations we fly to where we have one captain and three copilots (the other 2 being Buenos Aires and Singapore)

AF operates 777-200 with about 140 tons of petrol max (although this would only leave about 8 tons of usable load). Given the fuel burn of 6 to 7.5 tons per hour, you can compute yourself.

In 2004 we are getting the 777-300 ( with the 115000 lbs of thrust on each engine ), which I am told is able to fly longer.

An interesting fact is that we have two types of engine on our 777 fleet, the original 90000lbs and the newer 94000lbs which we only use at 90000lbs of thrust. The good thing is they actually burn less fuel than the original . (i hope I am making myself clear)

see ya

[Anti Skid On]

I was once on a Malaysian 772 which had a plaque on the bulkhead stating it held the record distance for an ETOPs aircraft. It flew its delivery from Seattle to KUL direct, non-stop, which calculates at 7016nm direct, but I would guess would be at least 10% longer. Of course this was neither scheduled or revenue generating.

BTW MEL - LAX - direct with which airline? United stop at AKL; SYD to LAX is direct with QF, NZ and UA, and there can't be much difference in that distance.

[Chunks]

Apparently the longest in the world is between Jo'burg and Atlanta.

[captchunder]

Aren't Emirates supposed to be looking at Dubai-LA with their shiny new A340's? Thats gotta be a long way.

[aaaaa]

PAL used to operate non stop MNL/LHR - this took 16hrs +
That was a long flight!!!!

PAL dont operate that route any more though