What has been the longest non-stop flight in the world in history?

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What has been the longest flight in the world nonstop history? There are many records registered by various airlines, aircraft or type of operation, I'll tell you which have been the longest. Photo Gschmoidy.

Even during the pandemic we have seen planes break flight records, but there are several types of "prizes that can be won".

Generally, the longest flights in the world are measured both by hours of flight or by the distance traveled from the airport of origin to the final destination., without always being the longest the one that has traveled the most distance.

Few days ago, the company Comlux published on its social networks that it had broken a world record by having flown 10.520 nautical miles in 20 hours and 19 minutes from Seoul to Buenos Aires nonstop on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

Was it the longest flight?

The answer is no, it all depends on what we want to measure and for this reason it is that more than one AvGeek questioned the company's apparent self-proclaimed record, where the famous and recognized Enrique Piñeyro participated as a pilot inclusive.

The longest flights in history

let's go by parts, there are aircraft that have remained in the air for days, even balloons for weeks, but we are going to analyze those who maintain the records, especially in terms of commercial aircraft:

• A Boeing 777-200LR holds the record for the longest commercial airliner flight in history by flying from Hong Kong to London covering 13.433 miles with a duration of 22 hours and 42 minutes with only 35 passengers to demonstrate the aircraft's capabilities.
• a boeing 787 of Comlux flew by 20 hours and 19 minutes between Seoul and Buenos Aires covering 10.520 nm.
• Flight TN-064 between Papeete and Paris covered 9.765 miles, which made it the longest scheduled domestic flight in the world with 16 flight hours, but by distance he holds the record.
• Sinapore Airlines between Singapore and Newark covers a distance of 9.534 miles with 18 hours and 45 flight minutes, what makes him longest international commercial flight in the world from the actuality.
• Qantas made the flight Project Sunrise, covering 11.060 miles and 19 hours with 19 minutes, it was not a commercial flight, rather it was an operation to study the effects of long flights on passengers.
• Qatar Airways operates the second longest commercial flight in the world flying between Doha and Auckland covering 9.032 miles in 18 hours and 5 minutes.

Other record flights

These records predate modern aviation, so I personally record them, are even more prominent:

• Between 1943 and 1945 Qantas operated the "Double Sunrise" flight between Perth and Sri Lanka, with an average duration of 28 hours on Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft.
• The 28 august 1948 a Martin Mars JRM-2 flew from Hawaii to Chicago nonstop in 24 hours and 12 minutes.
• The 2 October 1957 TWA on a Starliner flew from London to San Francisco nonstop in 23 hours and 19 minutes.
• On 1967 Aerolineas Argentinas maintained a record for establishing the service between Buenos Aires and Madrid in Boeing aircraft 707, covering 6.253 miles in 12 flight hours.
• The 16 June 1993 an Airbus A340-200 flew from Paris to Auckland in 21 hours and 46 minutes covering 11.978 miles.

As you can see there is an endless record for the longest flight in the history of aviation, but a lot depends on how you measure or what you want to measure to determine the winner, be this distance or duration.

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