What's the world's longest scheduled airline flight? At one time, in years past, I think it was San Francisco to Sydney and I felt a tiny little measure of pride because I've flown that flight. And yes, it's a very, very long time to sit in an aluminum tube. According to United.com the flight covers 7,417 miles and takes exactly 15 hours. These days, as shown in the chart above, that flight doesn't even make the top 20.
Number one on the list is Sydney to Dallas, at 8,578 miles. I checked the Qantas website and that flight, traveling eastbound, is scheduled at 15 hours and 35 minutes. The reverse flight, from Dallas to Sydney is identical in length but takes longer to fly, coming in at 16 hours and 50 minutes. Yikes.
Will non-stop flights keep getting longer and longer? Possibly not. At some point traveling around the earth you reach the point where you've started to double back and it's shorter to reverse the flight and go the other way.
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