Top 10 Longest Flights In The World

The Top 10 longest flights in the world, as of 2018-2020. The new longest flight in the world, both by distance and time in the air, is about 9,534 miles and 19 hours. Can you imagine spending that many hours straight on an airplane? One must be mentally prepared for such day-long flights. The flight times listed in the video, are current as of October 2018, though these tend to vary due to factors like weather, climate conditions, and airport traffic at different times of the year. With all that in mind, here are the 10 longest flights in the world.

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[thebuzz]

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[txbill]

Imagine flying from anywhere for 16 hours only to get to Newark.

[texasflood]

I once flew from Melbourne to Los Angeles and then to Denver. The most interesting part was that I boarded in Melbourne at 7 pm on January 5th and then boarded to Denver at 7 pm on January 5th.

[Dbodell]

Shows just how massive the Pacific is.

[sumeetbeniwal]

Fun fact: The longest flight ever flown by a passenger jet was from Hong Kong to London on a Boeing test flight on November 9, 2005. The aircraft used was a 777-200 LR (LR stands for long range). Now usually this flight goes over Asia and Europe and it is 12 hours and 35 minutes. But in this flight, they decided to fly over the Pacific Ocean, America, and Atlantic Ocean to get to London. It was seen flying over Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City. The flight was a whopping 22 hours and 43 minutes. They had to use 8 pilots for this flight. When they landed, they still had 2 hours worth of fuel left. It was enough to show off how long this plane can fly for.

[biggiedii]

I did Sydney-Dallas-Atlanta and back. The Dallas to Sydney flight was interesting. We took off pretty late at night and the entirety of the 17 hour flight was in darkness. It was also pretty cool knowing we flew over nothing but open ocean for over 13 hours.

[renesaldivar]

I did three around the world trips in one year. Left Nebraska to work in Germany usually Omaha to Chicago to Frankfurt, then off to China thru Singapore then to Shanghai. Then Shanghai to Sydney, Sydney to LAX and then back to Omaha. All in two weeks. Jet lag for a month.

[celebrityrog]

Fun Fact: SFO to Singapore is the same duration in flight as SFO to Hong Kong but the difference is one takes the equatorial route and the other takes the polar route.

[terraholdingco]

The longest flight in the world was performed by the Rutan Voyager in December of 1986. The aircraft was built for the mission and flew around the world, non-stop, without re-fueling. The flight took nine days and two pilots were on board. They flew 26, 366 miles in total, blowing away all other long distance flights. They hold the record to this day, taking off from California heading West, and landing at the same airport nine days later.

[ylass]

Qantas (Cwontas) Darwin to London is about 17 hours 40 minutes. Took it 2020.
Qantas has announced it will begin operating non-stop flights from Sydney to London and New York from 2025. 20hrs+

[pinayladyoz]

I experienced 1. Brisbane, Aus to Singapore to Frankfurt, Germany. Brisbane to Singapore 8 hours, then Singapore to Frankfurt Germany 13 hours . Only 2 hours stop-over in Singapore. I didn't mind at all because it was Singapore Airlines Business Class.

Then Davao City, Phils to Singapore to LA, it was exhausting. I will never do that again, even it was premium seats still to much.

Before Covid pandemic NZ Airlines fly Auckland to Beunos Aires non-stop, I can't imagine sitting inside the plane that long specially in economy class wearing mask.

[jorgenavarro]

I have taken the Delta flight Johannesburg-Atlanta several times and it's brutal, people need like a week to recover from the jetlag, especially the flight going down there.

[superally]

Toronto to Manila 16 hrs plus. Great crew made the flight enjoyable. Food was actually good as well. Flew at night over the North Pole, over Russia and China. This was in February. Second flight to Manila was October and we flew up over the Pacific, over Alaska and Japan down to Manila, same thing great crew on Philippines airlines.

[jobaecker]

20 years ago, the flight from Chicago to Singapore (with a stop at Tokyo Narita) was about 22 hours flying with about 3 hours layover. We left on a Friday afternoon and arrived Sunday morning.
The return flight left around noon and arrived the same morning, I think. Those time changes really mess with you!

[Batman-jcuc]

I did the 16hr 45 minute flight from NYC to Manila, Philippines. That one left at 145am so I was able to sleep early on.

[ritujoyc]

Dubai to Buenos Aires, via Sao Paolo on Emirates, over 19 hr! So much fun watching your beard grow, skin drying, getting constipated and totally losing all track of time 😁

[miyaosamu]

i flew for 4 hours Greece-Uk and cried the whole way. thank you

[zgm]

Please update: San Francisco to Bangalore by Air India 16 hours and 39 minutes and 14, 003-kilometre

[lakshminarasimhanmc]

Lovely collection of info! The list might be missing DEL-SFO which I think is amongst the top 5 long distance flights.

[VuQuang]

I once flew from Newark to Singapore in the early 2000. I now don’t remember how it felt flying that long of a flight.