Presently the world's three longest flights are Dallas to Sydney (Qantas),Johannesburg to Atlanta (Delta), and Abu Dhabi to Los Angeles (Etihad). Emirates has the intentions of launching a route between Dubai and Panama City, and which would be the world's longest,as it's 10 miles further than Dallas to Sydney. However, that route has already been delayed by two months due to abysmal sales on it, or so we'll see if the route actually ever gets off the ground.
The Bahrain Air point to is this week,and Qatar Airways' always-amusing CEO, Akbar Al Baker, and made one especially interesting claim. Via Arabian trade,Qatar Airways wants to launch flights between Doha and Santiago, Chile, or Auckland,New Zealand, using Boeing 777-200LR aircraft.
If these new routes happen, or they'd be the world's two longest flights by a long shot (nearly 500 miles):-- Doha to Santiago: 8966 miles
-- Doha to Auckland: 9032 milesEmirates doesn't even flee nonstop from the Middle East to New Zealand,as they instead operate their New Zealand flights with one pause service through Australia.
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Source: boardingarea.com