Air Canada’s longest B777 flight
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Air Canada’s longest B777 flight
This was taken from the latest Air Canada News about a non-stop ferry flight from Singapore to Toronto after maintenance.
This certainly demonstrates the long range of the B-777-300 and is any body aware of a longer flight? Does the B-777-200 have longer range?
AIR CANADA NEWS
Air Canada’s longest B777 flight. A ferry flight recently operated from Singapore to Toronto clocked in as our longest B777 flight at Air Canada. Operations Control YYZ SOC and Flight Dispatch in SOC reported that Fin 733, B777-300 pushed back at 0635 on April 2, 2013 and arrived on the gate at 0014 on April 3, 2013 for a total time of 17:40 minutes. The in-air time from takeoff to touchdown was 16:57, with the flight airborne at 0710 April 2, 2013 and touchdown at 0006 on April 3, 2013. The ferry flight distance was 8,780 miles and the flight burned 117 metric tons of fuel.
“As a point of reference, currently the longest scheduled passenger flight in the world is Singapore Airlines from Newark to Singapore which is a distance of 8,285 miles, the second longest passenger flights is also Singapore Airlines from Los Angeles to Singapore with a distance of only 7,621 miles. So our ferry flight flew 495 miles longer than the longest scheduled flight in the world and 1,269 miles longer than the second longest flight in the world.”
This certainly demonstrates the long range of the B-777-300 and is any body aware of a longer flight? Does the B-777-200 have longer range?
AIR CANADA NEWS
Air Canada’s longest B777 flight. A ferry flight recently operated from Singapore to Toronto clocked in as our longest B777 flight at Air Canada. Operations Control YYZ SOC and Flight Dispatch in SOC reported that Fin 733, B777-300 pushed back at 0635 on April 2, 2013 and arrived on the gate at 0014 on April 3, 2013 for a total time of 17:40 minutes. The in-air time from takeoff to touchdown was 16:57, with the flight airborne at 0710 April 2, 2013 and touchdown at 0006 on April 3, 2013. The ferry flight distance was 8,780 miles and the flight burned 117 metric tons of fuel.
“As a point of reference, currently the longest scheduled passenger flight in the world is Singapore Airlines from Newark to Singapore which is a distance of 8,285 miles, the second longest passenger flights is also Singapore Airlines from Los Angeles to Singapore with a distance of only 7,621 miles. So our ferry flight flew 495 miles longer than the longest scheduled flight in the world and 1,269 miles longer than the second longest flight in the world.”
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AC's media folk seem to overlooked the QF SYD-DFW flight which is 8578 miles according to GCM. Even the return DFW-BNE of 8303 miles is more than the quoted Newark - Singapore flight.
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Max Noise - The mileage quoted in the Air Canada report is nautical miles, you are quoting statute miles, both are stated in the Wiki page that Hobo linked. The SYD-DFW distance is actually 7454nm.
Toffeez - sorry to disappoint you but in the ATC world it'll always be a B772/3/L/W (ICAO codes).
Toffeez - sorry to disappoint you but in the ATC world it'll always be a B772/3/L/W (ICAO codes).
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SIN to Newark is 8990 nm with a flt time of 17.25hrs and passes Toronto on its way to Newark; return leg is about 8535nm and flt time of 18.15hrs; Also depends on either Polar rte or over Europe and prevailing winds!
Airbus A340-500 (quad-jet) ( SpeedFiled: 476 kts AltitudeFiled: 37,000 feet DistanceDirect: 9,539 sm Planned: 9,573 sm Flown: 33,628 smCabin
Business: RouteKAGIS A590 SELDM A590 HAMND TED J511 GKN NCA14 PEVRA NCA14 YNE NCA15 SSM J531 YYZ J522 KODEY J522 HNK SHAFF7
Airbus A340-500 (quad-jet) ( SpeedFiled: 476 kts AltitudeFiled: 37,000 feet DistanceDirect: 9,539 sm Planned: 9,573 sm Flown: 33,628 smCabin
Business: RouteKAGIS A590 SELDM A590 HAMND TED J511 GKN NCA14 PEVRA NCA14 YNE NCA15 SSM J531 YYZ J522 KODEY J522 HNK SHAFF7
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