10 Longest Non-Stop Flight Routes In The World
You don’t need 80 days to travel around the world these days. Just take a few hops in a plane and you’re already there. But while multi-leg flights are all fine and dandy, it’s the long flights that are actually the most impressive! So here are ten longest non-stop flights in the world – courtesy of Statista.
- 2018-10-12
- 11:16 AM GMT
Abu Dhabi – Los Angeles
- Airline: Etihad
- Time: 16 h 30 min
- Range: 13,502 km
Looks like Nermal is only one flight away from getting back to annoy Garfield.
Johannesburg – Atlanta
- Airline: Delta
- Time: 16 h 40 min
- Range: 13,582 km
Favored by people on expeditions to meet a nice South African or people with weird obsession Donald Glover.
Los Angeles – Jeddah
- Airline: Saudia
- Time: 16 h 55 min
- Range: 13,409 km
You can fly to see a Jedi, but you can fly to see Jeddah.
San Francisco – Singapore
- Airline: United/Singapore Airlines
- Time: 17 h 05 min
- Range: 13,593 km
Would be even faster, but, you know, traffic.
Auckland – Dubai
- Airline: Emirates
- Time: 17 h 15 min
- Range: 14,200 km
Overjoyed to appear at least on a flight map, New Zealand promised to never criticize Saudi Arabia.
Los Angeles – Singapore
- Airline: United
- Time: 17 h 20 min
- Range: 14,100 km
Not for singing poor actors!
Perth – London-Heathrow
- Airline: Quantas
- Time: 17 h 20 min
- Range: 14,499 km
Unlike in the colonial days, this route isn’t used to banish prisoners… yet.
Houston – Sydney
- Airline: United
- Time: 17 h 30 min
- Range: 13,800 km
Favored by astronauts who want to feel what living on a hostile alien world would be like.
Auckland – Doha
- Airline: Qatar
- Time: 18 h 30 min
- Range: 14,534 km
New Zealand is very thankful to Qatar, too.
Singapore – New York
- Airline: Singapore Airlines
- Time: 18 h 45 min
- Range: 16,700 km
Rumor has it that this line was re-opened specifically to spite people in flyover states.
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