# What is the longest flight you've taken? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 20, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-flight-youve-taken/550826 "2010-08-20T03:36:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-flight-youve-taken/550826/61 "2010-08-22T17:50:06Z")
12 hours, for both Atlanta to Tel Aviv and Amman to NYC. They were almost the same length, but the first one felt much, much longer, since I had left my glasses on the previous Minneapolis to Atlanta flight and had to have my contacts in the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-flight-youve-taken/550826/62 "2010-08-22T19:24:51Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Phoenix to Buffalo which is only about four hours and that I’ll never complain about again. > So yeah, very small there compared to everyone else in here… > > …however let me know when you do the “Longest Time on a Greyhound Bus” thread, I’ll be kicking ass and taking names with my times and distances in that one. This sounds to me like you’ve done this multiple times. I did 50 hours once in a single trip and I still don’t know how I managed it. And that’s only across 2/3 of the country, so plenty of room for improvement. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-flight-youve-taken/550826/63 "2010-08-22T19:37:13Z")
Toronto to Budapest. It was 8 years ago, so I don’t remember the exact length. I’ll say somewhere in the vicinity of 8.5. The stewardess refuse to let me use my discman at any point in the flight (for whatever reason), and so it felt closer to 40, lol. ---
**Author:** ![cuberdon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@cuberdon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuberdon)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-flight-youve-taken/550826/64 "2010-08-22T22:37:50Z")
Funny you should ask. My flight from Sydney to SFO got in at 10:30 this morning. 12h 51 m The way out was longer, 14 h 30 m. We had the strange experience of being in San Francisco on the same day and time as we had been in Sydney. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-flight-youve-taken/550826/65 "2010-08-23T06:04:35Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > > [@Cyberhwk](#): > > > > Wow. I flew 9 1/2 hours from Denver to London last summer and have vowed to either take a night or two in New York or take some trans-Atlantic cruise from now on. It was brutal. I can’t imagine doing 15-20 hours. > > If it is under 12, I consider it a “longish” flight at most. It’s frustrating to be 7 hours into a flight and realize I’m not even half way. > > Even harder with a 10 month old baby. Yeah, I can do a 5 hour flight standing on my head. For me the worst part on a long flight is when I have about 3 hours left. I’m tired of reading, I don’t want to listen to my ipod, I’ve watched all the movies; that’s when I can’t stop staring at that map that shows the plane’s position and that makes the whole experience seem even slower. I’m flying Dubai to DC this Saturday and I am dreading it. I might just bite the bullet and upgrade to business class. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-flight-youve-taken/550826/66 "2010-08-23T10:47:08Z")
Longest flight was Toronto to Lahore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-flight-youve-taken/550826.md?page=3)