The longest pax flight
 

is lax-dxb?

Negatory.

Singapore Airlines currently operate the longest nonstop commercial flight, between New York (Newark) and Singapore, as SQ21. Great circle distance is 9535 miles, while LAX-DXB is 8339.

SQ21 is scheduled at 18:30 hours, while the return flight from Singapore, SQ22, is scheduled at 18:15. It is operated in a one-class-only A340.

Am I right in assuming that one class is either business or first?

Think it's 100 business class seats on their A340-500 for this flight.

This service used to offer a mix of Business and Premium Economy but now operates as all-business. The economics do not lend themselves to anything other than premium traffic as the fuel costs on such a sector are astronomical, plus they are only getting one sector out of each aircraft per day.

thank you guys!

So when will we see London - Sydney non stop?

1991 operated by Qantas in a B747-400..................

Mutt

Yup, back to the future.
'New' guys have NO idea....and likely never will.:}

Yes but it was a delivery flight and carried no passengers.

Hey Mutt....they mean with PAX ...not towed to the end of the Runway ,using special fuel, sorry but the -400 is just not the machine to do LHR..SYD nonstops on anything other than publicity stunt delivery Flights :=

Yes, as mentioned, all business class configuration.

A friend of mine has done the trip once and said it was hell, 18+ hours just too much and the next time he had occasion to NY he went via Frankfurt (I think) just to get a break!

Are you sure about that? I know that it didn't carry a full load, but it did carry commercial passengers !!

Mutt

There's a complete thread on the QANTAS flight here. Great read. :ok:

http://www.pprune.org/dg-p-reporting...nt-qantas.html

Actually it was 1989 not 1991. Empty aircraft and special dense fuel (SG of .84), you can access a .pdf file of Flight International's report of the flight here:

1989 | 2606 | Flight Archive

Not quite the same length but EWR-DEL is only about 2 hours shorter and this one does offer economy class! Imagine being stuck in the middle of the 2-5-2 cabin for 16+ hours !

How about 30 hours in the air.
Wartime Qantas Catalina service from Ceylon to Perth.