It's a tie between Emirates Flight 449 from Dubai to Auckland, New Zealand, and Air India from San Francisco to New Delhi. Today, two airlines share the distinction of the world's longest nonstop flight, according to air-travel intelligence analysts OAG. The airline had sold its ultra-long-range A340-500 aircraft, and no other in its fleet was capable of connecting Singapore and the New York area on a nonstop basis. But the all-business-class Flight 21 was scrubbed in 2013, some nine years after its first voyage in 2004. Photo: SuppliedĪs long flights go, Singapore Airlines' epic almost-19-hour, 15,344km journey from Newark to Singapore was once the standard-bearer against which all others were measured. Emirates will fly its Boeing 777-200LR from Dubai to Auckland.
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