Here’s a trivia question that I’ve been wondering about: What is the longest regularly scheduled air flight? No stops allowed – I want to know what is the farthest distance you can go on a single regularly scheduled flight.
Anyone?
Currently, the longest regularly-scheduled commercial flight is Atlanta to Johannesburg (ATL-JNB), offered by South African Airways on a Boeing 747-400, at 13,568km. Cite.
I believe mecaenas is correct. There used to be a Joberg/New York flight, but I guess they’d often land with less than the minimum fuel for a safety margin, so now those flights have to stop somewhere in between.
This was discussed very recently:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=191449
D’oh!