Qantas flew non-stop from London to Sydney under 20 hours. After 19 hours and 19 minutes in the air, Qantas landed safely at Sydney. It is recorded as the longest flight in the world, beating from Newark (New Jersey, USA) to Singapore from Singapore Airlines SQ21. The distance was 15,344 kilometres. The flight took off on 11 October 2018.
The long flight which departed at Heathrow Airport at 6am on Thursday local time, which landed in Sydney at 12:28pm on Friday after travelling a lengthy 17,750 kilometres.
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| QF 7879 Boeing 787 Dreamliner Credit: www.qantas.com |
With 52 people on board, the QF 7879 Boeing 787 Dreamliner including Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce, saw and observed two sunrises (one over each wing) as the plane went its way across the globe.
The aircraft flew across 11 countries in Asia and Europe, crossing over England, Germany, Netherlands, Belarus, Poland, Kazakhstan, China, Indonesia and Philippines before crossing the Australian coast Darwin at 9:30am.
Flight QF7879 became the world's longest passenger flight by a commercial airline both for distance at 17,750 kilometres and for duration in the air, at 19 hours and 19 minutes.
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| Qantas flight QF7879 comes in for landing at the end of its record-breaking flight. James D Morgan/Qantas |
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