It’s only March, but attention is already turning to next year for the people working on Project Sunrise – the ambitious Qantas plan for a non-stop flight from Sydney to London and New York operated with A350s in a low-density configuration. New seats have already been publicised, with the now classic private suite concept in the two premium cabins, and Qantas has secured a new lounge facility in Heathrow as their plans for a super luxury product are slowly released. These exciting developments got us thinking about how much the longest non-stop flight has increased in the last twenty years, and it’s some distance!
But first, a note on the qualifying criteria for inclusion in our table of the longest non-stop flights since 1997: many airlines operate short-term, sometimes charter flights with a scheduled prefix, but some of those obscure flights are not included here as we have only counted services that operated at least twice weekly throughout the calendar year.
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