What is the longest flight you have been on?

[PrettyPriya]

Long-Haul Flights

What is the longest flight you have taken? If you haven't been on a particularly long flight, how long of a flight do you think you could stand?

[MCheetah]

From New York to Incheon, Seoul in late November 2019. 16 hour flight, with a two hour layover, so 18 hours total. And trying to figure out the time zone conversion there without just looking at my watch, is some level of math I'm not trying to do.

[PrettyPriya]

16 hours... yikes.

[ARWINGx1]

The longest flight I've been on is kind of vague, Well... more like, I don't remember which airport I departed from. But I do remember that it was towards Shanghai. And the flight took at least 8 hours. (due note that it was years ago.)

[bolverk]

My Longest flights as a civilian, Flight time from Manchester to Melbourne via Singapore this is a fast flight - MAN to SIN 14 hrs 55 mins - SIN
Waiting Time 3 hrs 5 mins - SIN to MEL 7 hrs 25 mins - Total Duration: 25 hrs 25 mins
But there is a slower flight Flight time from Manchester to Melbourne via Dubai - MAN to DXB 7 hrs 15 mins - DXB Waiting Time 19 hrs - DXB to MEL 16 hrs 10 mins - Total Duration: 42 hrs 25 mins

[PrettyPriya]

Those are some long ones. Lucky for me, my longest was Delhi to Perth with a stop in Changi. That wasn't too bad since it was broken up into two flights.

[Dinklex3]

So i had to fly from Syracuse Ny to Seattle Wa. Slept in a hotel, got my negative pcr test. Then continue my journey on a rotator from Seattle to Korea.

I don't know the exact flight time, but it took forever. I'm used to going to and from Alaska and Ny, but Korea? Terrible. It was definitely over 15 hours and I had the worse seats.

[Emiliamazing]

I don't remember the length of flight, but I had the privilege of going to France for a high school trip one summer. It was a two-part trip since I lived in the Midwest at the time. Flight over the Atlantic seemed endless, but keep in mind I was 13 or 14.

[MrOracle]

Though I believe that Miami was a bit further distance-wise than NYC, my longest flight time-wise was the return flight to San Francisco from NYC at 6.5 hours. Miami to SF was just over 6 hours. The return flight is longer because of headwinds - from SF to NYC only took about 5 hours. Weather definitely makes a difference when you're flying a longer distance.

[Sjoerd85]

Longest flight I did was from Charles de Gaulle Airport (Paris) to Narita Airport (Tokyo). It took 12 hours in both directions. I actually bought the tickets to depart from Brussels, but the plane was from Paris. So from Brussels to Paris they put us on a high speed train in first class (the train actually had a flightnumber for this trip). In Japan, I had to travel another few hours on local and high speed trains to get to my destination, so the total door to door time was 27 hours.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Over 18 long hours on board a Singapore Airlines flight from Changi Airport (Singapore) to John F. Kennedy Airport (New York).

[PrettyPriya]

That is a long one. We actually fly through Changi on the way to Perth!

[JustiReno]

They have a direct flight? That is long

[PrettyPriya]

@JustiReno No direct. There is a stop from Delhi to Singapore, then onto Australia.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

@JustiReno
Our flight from Singapore's Changi Airport to NYC's JFK Airport was a direct, non-stop flight.

[DryGermanGuy]

16 hours from Germany to the Caribbeans. Was at least one hour longer than planned, because of unfortunate winds. Even the flight crew looked miserable. 😖

[PrettyPriya]

That is way too long. I would be bouncing off the walls at that point. 😕

[DryGermanGuy]

Yeah, it was brutal. People were dragging themselves out at arrival. Not a great way to start a holiday. The flight back - with the jetstream - took only 11 hours.

[PrettyPriya]

Yeah, no kidding. Plus the time change and then being tired.

[DJB72]

Single leg, Cape Town to Heathrow at 11 hours 25 minutes. Travel time, Gatwick to Cape Town via Munich that took 3 days thanks to the airline screwing us up

[PrettyPriya]

Eww...3 days? That is too long to be traveling from place to place. I would be exhausted.

[DJB72]

They screwed up the booking and we ended up spending two days in Heathrow airport arguing about where our luggage was.

Avoid any airlines from Star Alliance. As individual airlines they may be ok but the centralised system is completely fucked up.

[Astarlessnightsky]

Only flew once (or twice if you count both ways)

Germany - Portugal and back, it was 2,5 hours.

[PrettyPriya]

That isn't too terrible. I get antsy around the 4-5 hour mark.

[SaoirseS]

Something like 18 hours from Chicago to Tokyo with my mom when I was a kid. Then on to another flight, then a train. Longest. Trip. Ever. That's why if anyone ever wants me to go to Asia again, they'll need to move the continent much closer!

[stratford]

Fourteen hours a few times. I dread to think of my carbon footprint :-(

I wouldn't want to do much longer, but on a modern plane it's not so bad.

[PrettyPriya]

That is a long time. I have done that long (a bit longer) but split between a couple of flights, thankfully.

[stratford]

Mine were both non-stop.

[PrettyPriya]

Yikes. That would be the end of me.

[stratford]

It wasn't ideal, and it terrible for the environment :-(

[MrKinktastic]

I think LA to Nuku’alofa was about 20 hours… that was rough lol

[PrettyPriya]

That would be a rough one. Not sure I could handle that non-stop without bouncing off the walls.

[MrKinktastic]

I slept a lot of it, I think on the way there we got to stop in Samoa after 16-18ish hours but not on the way back.

[abc3643]

I am not sure, but I suspect it was JFK in New York City to Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome circa 1972. We were on our way to Greece. I was in the 3rd Grade, so this was school year 1971-72 and I am pretty sure we went in 1972.

[SnowedIn]

13 hours and 40 minutes... Detroit to Tokyo.

[PrettyPriya]

That is a long one. Not sure how I would hold up.

[SnowedIn]

It was pretty brutal. And, this was in "good old days": no smart phones, no tablets, no portable DVD players, and laptops were so expensive that almost no one had them and, if we did, they wouldn't have lasted the flight and, even better, there was no downloading/streaming video. I used to read my way across the Pacific. Which is better than my poor mom who used to drink her way across the Atlantic when we lived in Europe.

[PrettyPriya]

That is way different. I even had Wifi last trip I was on. I was even able to log on here to cure some boredom.

[SecretsofKB]

13! I watched so many movies that I was behind on. That was the only way I survived!

[PrettyPriya]

Was it non-stop? Did they serve tacos? I have so many questions...

[SecretsofKB]

It was non-stop! No tacos though sadly.

[ShadezMcgee]

I belive 4 1/2 hours was the longest I have been on

[PrettyPriya]

That is about my breaking point where I just want off...

[RavVid]

Melbourne to London. There were a couple of stops but fairly much continuous. It is very nearly half the earths circumference and therefore the longest you can go. Unless you wanted to fly Los Angeles to Los Angeles for some stupid reason.

[Andres77]

To Australia on a military aircraft with inflight refueling. It was decades ago but I think it was about 14 hours.

[PrettyPriya]

That is about my max, but it was split into two flights so there was a reprieve of sitting on a plane for that long.

[Andres77]

When we flew back it was weird. We took off at about 10 am on a Saturday from Perth and landed at 8 am on the same Saturday in Hawaii. We crossed the international dateline. It just felt odd

[PrettyPriya]

That is weird! What a coincidence. My longest was to the same place, Perth. There is a stop in Singapore though. A nice 2-3 hour break from being on a plane.

[Twalli]

Chicago to Heathrow and back. Granted they were about a month apart. It also showed that while I can sleep almost everywhere, an airplane is an exception.

[PrettyPriya]

Me too. I have a tough time sleeping on the plane.

[Twalli]

I sleep almost everywhere else.

[msc545]

Los Angeles to Madrid. I'm not sure how long this took but it seemed like forever. I think the longest flight I could stand at this point would be about 16 hours and that would be quite painful.

[PrettyPriya]

That is a long one. I have done about the same but split into two different flights with a break. That was bad enough.

[JustiReno]

Direct only 12hrs about same to Turkey and Japan from Seattle though it took me 36 hrs to get to Koh Samui Thailand during Covid, I wouldn’t be able to do it again, fastest flight I’ve seen from Seattle to Bangkok is 19hr

[Paris13]

2011 As I was Flying to Egypt to be with a Muslim man whom I got Tied up with. layovers in Turkey and things of this nature. I didn't get There until Halloween at 3AM That Monday Morning. xx

[exitseven]

Probably went to Oklahoma City. About 3 hours.

[PrettyPriya]

That isn't too bad.

[exitseven]

I have not been on a plane since before 9/11.