Emirates world's longest flight, Emirates has bumped Qantas Airways out of the top atom for the world’s longest flight. Emirates took over the appellation Tuesday with the barrage of its 8,819-mile ceaseless avenue amid Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and Auckland, New Zealand.
That drops Qantas’ 8,576-mile avenue amid Dallas/Fort Worth and Sydney, Australia – the antecedent almanac holder – into additional place, according to flight-data provider OAG. Delta’s 8,434-mile ceaseless avenue amid Atlanta and Johannesburg, South Africa, slides to No. 3.
Emirates' move to the top atom in fact had been accepted to appear Feb. 1, the aboriginal barrage date for the carrier’s planned Dubai-Panama City-limits ceaseless avenue that aswell would’ve overtaken Qantas’ DFW-Sydney route.
But Emirates pushed aback the barrage of that avenue to March 31. The adjournment reportedly came as Emirates formed to defended approval to codeshare with bounded carriers, according to Business Traveller magazine. Copa Airlines operates a above abutting hub at Panama City, and a codeshare alliance would acquiesce the airlines to carry abutting cartage to anniversary other’s flights on a individual ticket.
Regardless of if the Dubai-Panama City-limits avenue begins, it will not be continued abundant to beat Emirates' just-launched Dubai-Auckland route. Dubai-Panama will be about 236 afar shorter, according to the Great Circle Mapper website. Time-wise, however, the Dubai-to-Panama flights will ambit from 16 hours, 55 account in the summer to 17 hours, 35 account in the winter. The closing would concealment the 17-hour, 20-minute Auckland-to-Dubai flight in agreement of time, if not distance.
It was just in 2014 that Qantas bumped Delta's Atlanta-Johannesburg avenue out of the top atom with its then-new Dallas/Fort Worth-Sydney flight. And the jostling for the appellation of “world’s longest bartering commuter flight” may not be accomplished yet.
Qatar Airways' CEO Akbar Al Baker said beforehand this year that the carrier would anon barrage ceaseless flights from its Doha hub to both Auckland and Santiago, Chile. Those routes – if launched – would become the world’s longest, admitting Qatar Airways has fabricated no academic advertisement about if or if it would chase through on Al Baker’s comments.
“We will not add a city-limits afore we accept the arrangement to abutment it,” Qatar Airways said in a account to Bloomberg News. “While the appellation of longest airline flight may move and about-face amid carriers, alone a few airlines are aggressive in that space. That’s area the advantage of our cartography comes in.”
And afresh there’s Singapore Airlines, which for years captivated the “world’s longest flight” appellation for its avenue abutting Singapore to New York. Singapore scrapped that avenue in 2013, but fabricated account backward endure year by adage it expects to reinstate ceaseless Singapore-U.S. routes as anon as 2018 with its new Airbus A350 aircraft. If Singapore resumes those routes – as is broadly accepted – its New York-Singapore flights would afresh become the world’s longest at a ambit of 9,537 miles, according to Great Circle Mapper.
As for Emirates’ new Dubai-Auckland route, the carrier is application 266-seat Boeing 777-200LR jets that affection eight capital “suites,” 42 lie-flat business-class seats and 216 economy-class seats.
Emirates already serves Auckland with circadian flights, but anniversary stops in one of three Australian cities (Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane) en route. The Auckland-Dubai flight is the aboriginal ceaseless abutting bond the cities.
That drops Qantas’ 8,576-mile avenue amid Dallas/Fort Worth and Sydney, Australia – the antecedent almanac holder – into additional place, according to flight-data provider OAG. Delta’s 8,434-mile ceaseless avenue amid Atlanta and Johannesburg, South Africa, slides to No. 3.
Emirates' move to the top atom in fact had been accepted to appear Feb. 1, the aboriginal barrage date for the carrier’s planned Dubai-Panama City-limits ceaseless avenue that aswell would’ve overtaken Qantas’ DFW-Sydney route.
But Emirates pushed aback the barrage of that avenue to March 31. The adjournment reportedly came as Emirates formed to defended approval to codeshare with bounded carriers, according to Business Traveller magazine. Copa Airlines operates a above abutting hub at Panama City, and a codeshare alliance would acquiesce the airlines to carry abutting cartage to anniversary other’s flights on a individual ticket.
Regardless of if the Dubai-Panama City-limits avenue begins, it will not be continued abundant to beat Emirates' just-launched Dubai-Auckland route. Dubai-Panama will be about 236 afar shorter, according to the Great Circle Mapper website. Time-wise, however, the Dubai-to-Panama flights will ambit from 16 hours, 55 account in the summer to 17 hours, 35 account in the winter. The closing would concealment the 17-hour, 20-minute Auckland-to-Dubai flight in agreement of time, if not distance.
It was just in 2014 that Qantas bumped Delta's Atlanta-Johannesburg avenue out of the top atom with its then-new Dallas/Fort Worth-Sydney flight. And the jostling for the appellation of “world’s longest bartering commuter flight” may not be accomplished yet.
Qatar Airways' CEO Akbar Al Baker said beforehand this year that the carrier would anon barrage ceaseless flights from its Doha hub to both Auckland and Santiago, Chile. Those routes – if launched – would become the world’s longest, admitting Qatar Airways has fabricated no academic advertisement about if or if it would chase through on Al Baker’s comments.
“We will not add a city-limits afore we accept the arrangement to abutment it,” Qatar Airways said in a account to Bloomberg News. “While the appellation of longest airline flight may move and about-face amid carriers, alone a few airlines are aggressive in that space. That’s area the advantage of our cartography comes in.”
And afresh there’s Singapore Airlines, which for years captivated the “world’s longest flight” appellation for its avenue abutting Singapore to New York. Singapore scrapped that avenue in 2013, but fabricated account backward endure year by adage it expects to reinstate ceaseless Singapore-U.S. routes as anon as 2018 with its new Airbus A350 aircraft. If Singapore resumes those routes – as is broadly accepted – its New York-Singapore flights would afresh become the world’s longest at a ambit of 9,537 miles, according to Great Circle Mapper.
As for Emirates’ new Dubai-Auckland route, the carrier is application 266-seat Boeing 777-200LR jets that affection eight capital “suites,” 42 lie-flat business-class seats and 216 economy-class seats.
Emirates already serves Auckland with circadian flights, but anniversary stops in one of three Australian cities (Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane) en route. The Auckland-Dubai flight is the aboriginal ceaseless abutting bond the cities.
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