Emirates launching world’s longest flight
Qantas’ Sydney-Dallas route will soon lose its crown as the world’s longest nonstop flight after Gulf carrier Emirates announced plans to fly from its Dubai hub to Panama City.
The Panama flight will cover a distance of 13,821 kilometres, eclipsing the Qantas flight by a mere 17 km.
Flights will launch on February 1, 2016 and will take 17 hours and 35 minutes to complete the journey.
Emirates will deploy twin-engine 777-200LRs the route, which have a range of 17,000 km, with 266 seats in a three-class configuration.
However it is not the longest ever scheduled nonstop route.
Singapore Airlines holds that record for its now discontinued 16,000 km flight from Singapore to Newark, which took 19 hours.
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