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Well, it depends. As my current budget forces me to fly economy, I don't like long flights that much (I am about 6'4'').
My longest flight was FRA-ATL or something like that, against the wind with 10h10 - in a shabby Delta 767 economy class. It was too much, but I survived.
The normal East Coast - Western Europe flights with about 7-9 hrs are okay, a few times a year.
Anything under 4-5hrs really is a pleasure.
Chicago-Beijing was 15:50, JFK-Seoul was 15:05. I think the longest flight on Earth now is JFK to Singapore at about 18 hours. Getting stuck on the tarmac for hours upon hours is a whole different animal. Asiana is superb, and still offers great free drinks, and great food (in Economy). UAL sucks, so does American. And I'm as American as a T-bone steak. Labor unions destroying modern aviation is what is un-American.
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I wanted to go to Bali this year with a friend that buys all her stock for store from Bali. Would be a great trip with someone who has a inside to the villages but when I found out how many hours even from Hawaii... I can't be I don't think on the plane that long... maybe try it to Thialand but overnight on a flight. Too much for me. At this point.
I've been on several flights longer than 11 hours and they are definitely not fun... my longest was 19+ hours (coach on South African Air) from DC to Johannesburg... now THAT was torture... I would have taken ANY layover to get out and stretch a bit on that flight. I have yet to forgo a trip just because of flight times and routes, though..
I wish an affordable concorde type airplane would come out just for crossing the Atlantic/Pacific. For me short haul flights are more annoying than long haul flights.
I just returned from a trip to Singapore involving almost 20 hours of flight time all in economy class ! Way too long. This didn't include another 5 hours or so waiting for connecting flights.
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