# Air Travel Trivia

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-travel-trivia/183319>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 21, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-travel-trivia/183319 "2003-06-21T00:36:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-travel-trivia/183319/1 "2003-06-21T00:36:52Z")

</div>

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?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![mecaenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@mecaenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mecaenas)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-travel-trivia/183319/2 "2003-06-21T00:55:48Z")

</div>

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](http://www.ideosphere.com/fx-bin/Claim?claim=FlyFar).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-travel-trivia/183319/3 "2003-06-21T01:17:04Z")

</div>

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.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-travel-trivia/183319/4 "2003-06-21T02:23:12Z")

</div>

This was discussed very recently:

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=191449](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=191449)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-travel-trivia/183319/5 "2003-06-21T23:42:54Z")

</div>

D’oh!