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A friend of mine took that flight back when South African Airways was still flying the route (using 747s), but there was a refueling stop somewhere, thereby rendering it not a non-stop.
I flew South African Airways JFK-JBN (and back) some years ago and the refueling stop was in Dakar, Senegal.
Flew that Singapore/NYC route many times...in the 'old' days, it stopped in Amsterdam for refueling, and of course, once again in NY before continuing on to the west coast.
It would seem like the most natural route would be DFW to Tokyo and on to Singapore (6,436 mi & 3,312 mi).
Do you just like to fly United?
6436+ 3312=9748 which is only 58 miles longer than the great circle route of 9690 miles
Yes it would seem. I generally fly United because its easy for me to maintain gold, the star alliance, and I can upgrade cheaper and easier on United vs American heading to SIN. Generally United likes to fly me to IAH, ORD, LAX or SLC to NRT then SIN. I have also though wound up going to EWR -> HKG -> SIN.
I suppose if you wanted to sample the longest flight for each airline (distance in statute miles)
8,439 Delta Air Lines DL201 Johannesburg to Atlanta
8,065 United Airlines UA117 Newark to Hong Kong
7,057 American Airlines AA289 Chicago-O'Hare to Shanghai-Pudong
5,754 US Airways US797 Tel Aviv to Philadelphia
5,654 Hawaiian Airlines HA 51 New York to Honolulu
2,846 Alaska Airlines AS 139 Chicago to Anchorage
2,704 JetBlue Airways B6 631 Boston to San Francisco
2,363 Southwest Airlines WN 603 Providence to Las Vegas
Point-to-point sub-orbital spaceflight is a category of spaceflight in which a spacecraft uses a sub-orbital flight for transportation. London to Sydney is the one of the obvious contenders for Virgin Galactic SpaceShipThree which presumably would be about tourism as much as transport.
Flew that Singapore/NYC route many times...in the 'old' days, it stopped in Amsterdam for refueling, and of course, once again in NY before continuing on to the west coast.
Great service. The alternatives stunk.
JFK to Amsterdam 3630 miles
Amsterdam to Singapore 6530 miles
Total 10,160 miles
JFK to Tokyo 6730 miles
Tokyo to Singapore 3330 miles
Total 10,060 miles
Newark to Singapore nonstop 9,535 miles
Those inexpensive Round the World flights require you return more than 14 days after you left (and usually less than 180). If they didn't have a minimum requirement, everybody trying to get to Singapore would purchase a RTW flight.
It looks like Qantas flights to Sydney and Brisbane and Delta flights from Atlanta to Johannesburg will remain the current champions for the forseeable future.
8,433 ATL JNB Delta Air Lines Inc.
... and all this time I thought the ATL-HNL Delta flight I took back in 1990 on an L-1011 was long at 10 1/2 hours...
... and all this time I thought the ATL-HNL Delta flight I took back in 1990 on an L-1011 was long at 10 1/2 hours...
Not even close!
A little far down the list from ATL today (just Delta flights)
1 ) 8,433 JNB Johannesburg, South Africa
2 ) 7,599 DXB Dubai, United Arab Emirates
3 ) 7,018 NGO Nagoya, Japan
4 ) 6,850 NRT Tokyo, Japan
5 ) 5,843 LOS Lagos, Nigeria
6 ) 5,036 FCO Rome, Italy
7 ) 4,999 EZE Ezeiza, Argentina
8 ) 4,797 MUC Munich, Germany
9 ) 4,735 GIG Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
10 ) 4,694 SCL Santiago, Chile
11 ) 4,691 ZRH Zurich, Switzerland
12 ) 4,682 STR Stuttgart, Germany
13 ) 4,652 GRU Sao Paulo, Brazil
14 ) 4,615 FRA Frankfurt, Germany
15 ) 4,584 BCN Barcelona, Spain
16 ) 4,507 DUS Dusseldorf, Germany
17 ) 4,502 HNL Honolulu, HI
The original Boeing 747-100B introduced in 1970 which could seat 366 (3-class) and 565 (1-class) could fly 6,100 miles with maximum fuel capacity 48,445 U.S. gal. I don't know if many people flew that far as it would still cost a lot of fuel per person.
But I don't think of a flight as really long haul until it gets over 5500 miles.
On May 31, 1989, Singapore Airlines operated the first international service using a 747-400, on a flight from Singapore to London (6760 miles).
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... and all this time I thought the ATL-HNL Delta flight I took back in 1990 on an L-1011 was long at 10 1/2 hours...
I did that flight, too, many moons before you. I was headed to Schofield Barracks on Oahu to report for duty. Of course, as I was a tender pup, I didn't yet have any status with Delta. That meant sitting way in the rear of the aft pax compartment, just a couple of rows forward of the Gigantic Bank Of Toilets In The Very Back.
My longest non-stop was from Santiago, Chile to Madrid, Spain which continued on to Frankfurt on a LAN airlines A340-300. The SCL-MAD segment was 13 1/2 hours and 10,731 kilometers (sorry, don't have the miles conversion). The Madrid to Frankfurt segment was another 2 1/2 hours.
Thankfully, it was part of a round-the-world ticket in business class, and LAN has nice lie-flat seats in their long haul jets. I've done enough long haul coach between the US and Europe to know that 13 1/2 hours crammed into a coach seat would have been both mind and butt numbing!
A little far down the list from ATL today (just Delta flights)
1 ) 8,433 JNB Johannesburg, South Africa
17 ) 4,502 HNL Honolulu, HI
But I don't think of a flight as really long haul until it gets over 5500 miles.
Yeah it's definitely a short one by today's standards. It was an experience though... and makes my yearly west-east coast trip back home seem like a very short ride.
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Originally Posted by Tuna Meowt
I did that flight, too, many moons before you. I was headed to Schofield Barracks on Oahu to report for duty. Of course, as I was a tender pup, I didn't yet have any status with Delta. That meant sitting way in the rear of the aft pax compartment, just a couple of rows forward of the Gigantic Bank Of Toilets In The Very Back.
I would NOT want to have been on that flight if the lavs were acting up. Ewwwww.
Ha! I remember those lavatories!
I was headed to Schofield too... stepdad was stationed there and I was 15 and going to live with him and my mom. I went to high school at Leilehua and lived at Helemano... past Whitmore Village on Kam Hwy headed to North Shore.
Spent 3 years there... the high school years.
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