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Mar 21st, 2006 at 4:50pm

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Changi-Newark at 18.5 hours is the longest but has anybody got any interesting information on other long flights eg equipment used, (usually 345's) or any first hand experience of extremely long flights 15hours +

Cheers Rich


p.s. my longest is 14 hours return from hong kong to heathrow with virgin
 
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Reply #1 - Mar 21st, 2006 at 6:28pm

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Any trip with certain family members... Grin
 
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Reply #2 - Mar 21st, 2006 at 7:42pm
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Any trip with certain family members... Grin


lol...any trip be it 10 minutes or 10 hours with some family can make you wish you were dead Roll Eyes

Longest flight I've ever flown on was around 7 hours from Detroit to Seatle with very strong headwinds.  Long flight when by yourself and the longest flight to that date was 2 hours Tongue  I can say more after my trip to Taipei eather this summer or next fall.  Looking at anywhere from a 11 to 16 hour nonstop flight depending on my route Wink  Really tempted to go through New York and take the Cathay A340-600 to Hong Kong I think its around a 16.5 hour flight.
 
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Reply #3 - Mar 21st, 2006 at 8:28pm

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Longest flight I've ever flown on was around 7 hours from Detroit to Seatle with very strong headwinds.

Man, those were some nasty headwinds! Shocked
 
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Reply #4 - Mar 21st, 2006 at 11:53pm

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Let me see.  That would have been 16 hrs with layover.  Philadelphia ( PHL ) to Los Angeles ( LAX ) on a 727.  Then LAX to Honolulu ( HNL ) on a L1011.

  Return trip was 13 hrs starting at HNL to Chicago ( ORD ) on a 747 and ORD to PHL on a 727.

   The only movie on the way to Honolulu was Hannah and Her Sisters ( slept )
 
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Reply #5 - Mar 22nd, 2006 at 12:26am

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And my dad gets to cross the pacific in G4s while the rest of us peasents (that's right, his son too!) are herded into the cattle cars... Grin
 
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Reply #6 - Mar 24th, 2006 at 11:49am
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26 Hours: LHR-SYD.
14 Hours: LHR-SIN
13 Hours: LHR-KUL (Doing it again on Wednesday!)
10 Hours: LHR-BKK
9 Hours: LHR-MIA
8 Hours: LGW-DXB
7-8 Hours: BOS-LHR

All that and I'm not even 20! (Btw not all of my flights, only ones over 7 hours)
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Reply #7 - Mar 24th, 2006 at 12:48pm

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26 Hours: LHR-SYD.
14 Hours: LHR-SIN
13 Hours: LHR-KUL (Doing it again on Wednesday!)
10 Hours: LHR-BKK
9 Hours: LHR-MIA
8 Hours: LGW-DXB
7-8 Hours: BOS-LHR

All that and I'm not even 20! (Btw not all of my flights, only ones over 7 hours)
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LHR-SYD nonstop? who was that, when, what eqipment and how was it? Smiley
 
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Reply #8 - Mar 24th, 2006 at 3:15pm

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26 Hours: LHR-SYD.
14 Hours: LHR-SIN
13 Hours: LHR-KUL (Doing it again on Wednesday!)
10 Hours: LHR-BKK
9 Hours: LHR-MIA
8 Hours: LGW-DXB
7-8 Hours: BOS-LHR

All that and I'm not even 20! (Btw not all of my flights, only ones over 7 hours)
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26 hours non-stop is impossible AFAIK unless you flew the 777-200LR which is still not in service yet...

Let's see...my longest flight was CX A340-600 to Johannesburg from Hong Kong...was a small time ago 8)
 
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Reply #9 - Mar 24th, 2006 at 9:23pm

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26 hours non-stop is impossible AFAIK unless you flew the 777-200LR which is still not in service yet...

He's probably inculding a stop (or two) in there Wink
 
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Reply #10 - Mar 25th, 2006 at 6:07am

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LHR-SYD nonstop? who was that, when, what eqipment and how was it? Smiley


Boeing 777-200LR, November 10th 2005, Sydney to Heathrow...

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2005/q4/nr_051110g.html
 
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Reply #11 - Mar 25th, 2006 at 9:55am

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Boeing 777-200LR, November 10th 2005, Sydney to Heathrow...

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2005/q4/nr_051110g.html

Ahem... "747-400 in 1989 that flew 9,200 nautical miles (17,039 km) nonstop from London to Sydney." Grin
 
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Reply #12 - Mar 25th, 2006 at 10:46am

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Ahem... "747-400 in 1989 that flew 9,200 nautical miles (17,039 km) nonstop from London to Sydney." Grin


Ah, but was it carrying passengers (albeit in the form of 35 journalists?) Grin
 
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Reply #13 - Mar 25th, 2006 at 6:29pm
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unless you flew the 777-200LR which is still not in service yet...


Accualy PIA has had one in service for about a month Wink  http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=1020022 ;

I saw a video of it landing in Manchester on its delivery flight...think it was on FL350 Wink

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Man, those were some nasty headwinds!


It seemed like forever...Now that i look at the scheduled times it was probably more like 6...I know we arrived at least an hour or more past our scheduled time.  We took off on time though.  I remember we didn't wait in a queve eather, only a 747 was ahead of us.  Its been a couple years...that was back in 2003 Tongue
 
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Reply #14 - Mar 25th, 2006 at 7:49pm

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I've flown to SIN from LHR and back several times it usually takes between 11 and 12 hours from LHR to SIN and about 13 to 14 hrs to fly back depending on the winds aloft!

Either way it's a bloody long time! I and never fly at night on the way back from SIN 'cos it never gets light for the whole trip!
 
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