Like some of you, LA to Sydney, 15 hours.
I was in coach. About 45 minutes in I started complaining about my back.
I was astounded to realize that, as we flew over Hawaii, we were not even halfway there.
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It’s too bad we don’t have an astronaut pop in here who lived aboard ISS. They would blow the stats on this thread out of the water.
FYI - For me, SFO-SYD and LAX-SYD many times. The longest one was 14 hours.
17hrs, Chicago to Tokyo. Three times. I didn’t begin my journey in Chicago, or end it in Tokyo, (those flights would total things up to 23-26 hrs in the air.) but that’s the longest non stop leg I’ve done.
Longest I’ve ever done was JFK to LAX to Sydney (6 hrs + 15 hrs with a three hour layover.) I’ve also done JFK to Tokyo (14 hrs) and then on to Singapore (7 hrs).
Thankfully I was able to score comfy seats for both trips. I watched all three Back to the Futures on the way to Sydney and a few seasons of Brooklyn 99 on the way back. God bless mini iPads.
Chicago to Istanbul several times (scheduled for ~ 11 hours on the way there, over 12 on the way back), usually followed by a 2-hour layover, a 2-hour flight onward to Ercan, and then a schlep over to the south side of the island to the on-laws’.
It was in the late 90’s, a new route when we first did it. It’s a while back now, I could be misrembering.
Then, I guess, three years ago, Toronto-Hong Kong, 15.5 hrs!
Honestly, I find the domestic flights harder after a lot of international travel. Seriously crappy seats, no meal, less courteous travelers (dude, pleeaase don’t recline your seat into my laptop and lap?), often no seat AC or USB power, no free TV/movies. Even in coach, international is a little or a lot better in every way.
A friend of mine once flew from New Orleans to Manila – New Orleans to Chicago to Seoul to Manila. He said the Chicago-to-Seoul leg alone was 18 hours. That seemed long, but maybe not.
If it makes a difference, this flight would’ve been circa 1988-1990. No idea of the carrier or the specific type of plane.
If we’re going for subjectively longest, that would be the red-eye from LAX to… somewhere in Europe (connecting en route to Uganda).
In the very last row of coach, the seat next to the bathroom.
Pre-tablet, pre-seatback touchscreen. There were maybe a dozen movies playing on repeat, each on a separate channel. The audio/video on my screen was screwed up on almost all of the channels. My only options were (I swear this is true) Iron Man in Spanish and Caddyshack.
The two longest flights out of Houston are to Tokyo and Dubai, and I flew both those legs on a RTW, flying out to Tokyo and back in fron Dubai. 'i didn’t even know then the elapsed duration but it must have been over 16. Almost polar, flew over Greenland
JFK (New York, USA) to Ben Gurion (Israel), 12 hours 16 minutes flight time, but with much longer delays than normal on the pad and through security. I was flying one day (18 hours to be exact) after they lifted the ban on flights into the airport during the 2014 conflict on a prescheduled trip to Israel. It was economy the whole way, but they provided extra drinks and premium entertainment to everyone as the plane was only about 1/2 full due to the conflict. Sadly, they didn’t let us spread out to unused seats, and I was stuck in a middle row and unable to find anything to prop myself again enough to sleep.
Same for me.
I was supposed to fly the nonstop from SFO to Singapore this spring, but obviously that got canceled. That is 17 hours.
Longest flights I’ve had were several 5 hours between California and Hawaii. But the much more interesting long-ish flights were about 2 1/2 hours in a two-seat glider, in some of which I did some or most of the actual flying. The most scenic were in the Truckee vicinity, over and around Lake Tahoe.
@squeegee, do you think that your corrections on flight times is really contributing to this thread?
The thread is about longest flights. Twice someone has quoted a long flight off by four hours. That’s quite a lot. I posted my longest flight, accurately, in post 3.
It’s also IMHO. But, hey, whatever floats your boat.
LAX to Incheon, then the return flight. About 13 hours to Incheon. We went on Asiana and I have some great memories from the flight over.
I used to fly Houston to Amsterdam regularly. I think it was around 10-11 hours (probably depending on direction).
As a private pilot, my longest was about 6 hours non-stop, Dallas to Rapid City, SD. Single engine Cessna (182) with long-range tanks.