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What is the longest flight segment you have taken... by longest I mean longest time in the air without touching down. Let's see who comes up with the longest and which destinations
It was the flight from LA to Sydney- 14 1/2 hours!! I'm kind of a nervous flyer as it is, so I wondered how I would get through it!! (This is why God invented pills and wine!!)
ha, ha! no really, it wasn't too bad. Although I was flying with 7 friends, we all got separated, so I had to sit next to strangers, but after a while it got easier and didn't feel much different than a 2 hour flight.
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What is the longest flight segment you have taken... by longest I mean longest time in the air without touching down. Let's see who comes up with the longest and which destinations
JFK to Hong Kong non-stop, 16hrs or so in the air (I think my ticket said 16:20, but I believe it was a bit shorter than that in actual flight time). A long flight, but fortunately it was on Cathay Pacific vs. a U.S. airline.
In a tag on to Sportsfangal, that's why the Aussie's invented Victoria Bitter. 3 of those and that flight wasn't that bad. I did it too on my way to a G'day Australia Globus tour.
LA to Singapore - about 17.5 hours. This is currently the second longest commercial non-stop route currently operating on this planet (the first is Newark to Singapore at 18.5 hours).
Atlanta to Cape Town, South Africa - about 18 hours. BUT, that included a refueling stop in Cape Verde (not a passenger stop, but just to refuel). Obviously this eliminates it from this survey.
Wow, the 21-hour one beat me! I flew non-stop DC to Johannesburg, South Africa - 19.5 hours... it was billed as the longest non-stop commercial flight at that time (about a year or so ago).
I swear, if they had opened the doors at hour 12, I would have jumped! There is no way something should stay in the air that long! The return trip was actually SHORTER, even though we had a refueling stop in Dhaka.
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I'm kind of a nervous flyer as it is, so I wondered how I would get through it!! (This is why God invented pills and wine!!)
