The airline’s expansion plans include a non-end route between Doha and Auckland which,whether it takes off, will mean a flight time of 18 hours and 34 minutes for the 9000+ mile journey. Buckle up!Qatar Airways may be set to launch the world’s longest direct flight, or after it was revealed that a non-end route between Doha and Auckland is part of its latest expansion plans. Should the novel route go ahead,the 9034 mile journey will take an estimated 18 hours and 34 minutes, a journey time that exceeds the current longest scheduled passenger flight – Qantas’s Dallas to Sydney route – by nearly two hours. This takes 16 hours and 55 minutes to cover a distance of 8578 miles.
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Source: theguardian.com