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Boeing 777 Makes World's Longest Nonstop Commercial Flight

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A bit more than a week old, but still rather recent news. :)

Boeing arrives in London at end of world's longest nonstop commercial flight
By EMILY BEHLMANN
10 November 2005

LONDON (AP) - A Boeing Co. jet arrived in London from Hong Kong on Thursday after 22 hours and 43 minutes in the air, breaking the record for the longest nonstop flight by a commercial jet.

The 777-200LR Worldliner -- one of Boeing's newest planes -- touched down shortly after 1 p.m. (1300 GMT) at London's Heathrow Airport after a journey of more than 18,662 kilometers (11,664 miles).

A representative of Guinness World Records, which monitored the flight, presented Boeing's Lars Andersen with a certificate confirming it was for the longest nonstop commercial flight.

Captain Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann, was at the controls when the plane left Hong Kong, said the trip east across the Pacific had been bumpy.

"But we had a great ride across the United States ... and across the Atlantic we saw our second sunrise of the trip," she said.

The previous record was set when a Boeing 747-400 flew 17,039 kilometers (10,500 miles) from London to Sydney in 1989.

Andersen said the Hong Kong-to-London flight showed the future of air travel.

"With the 777-200LR, we are changing the world," he said. "Passengers can fly commercially between just about any two cities nonstop."

The plane had four pilots and was carrying 35 passengers and crew, including Boeing representatives, journalists and customers.

The record-breaking attempt is part of Boeing's fierce competition with its European rival Airbus. The Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner was designed to compete directly with the popular Airbus 340-500, which has a flight range of 16,700 kilometers (10,380 miles).

Boeing said that after leaving Hong Kong, the jet flew across the northern Pacific Ocean before reaching North America, where it flew over Los Angeles, then slightly south of Chicago and over New York before cruising over the Atlantic Ocean to London. Hong Kong-London flights usually fly over Russia.
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I'd definitely go nutts if I had to spend 20+ hours in a plane. :?
I can barely survive the 2-3hours flight when I go back from NL to either Bulgaria or Hungary for visiting family. So boring, can't do anything but sit in some crappy economy class seat.
 
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pdanev said:
A bit more than a week old, but still rather recent news. :)

Boeing arrives in London at end of world's longest nonstop commercial flight
By EMILY BEHLMANN
10 November 2005

LONDON (AP) - A Boeing Co. jet arrived in London from Hong Kong on Thursday after 22 hours and 43 minutes in the air, breaking the record for the longest nonstop flight by a commercial jet.

The 777-200LR Worldliner -- one of Boeing's newest planes -- touched down shortly after 1 p.m. (1300 GMT) at London's Heathrow Airport after a journey of more than 18,662 kilometers (11,664 miles).

A representative of Guinness World Records, which monitored the flight, presented Boeing's Lars Andersen with a certificate confirming it was for the longest nonstop commercial flight.

Captain Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann, was at the controls when the plane left Hong Kong, said the trip east across the Pacific had been bumpy.

"But we had a great ride across the United States ... and across the Atlantic we saw our second sunrise of the trip," she said.

The previous record was set when a Boeing 747-400 flew 17,039 kilometers (10,500 miles) from London to Sydney in 1989.

Andersen said the Hong Kong-to-London flight showed the future of air travel.

"With the 777-200LR, we are changing the world," he said. "Passengers can fly commercially between just about any two cities nonstop."

The plane had four pilots and was carrying 35 passengers and crew, including Boeing representatives, journalists and customers.

The record-breaking attempt is part of Boeing's fierce competition with its European rival Airbus. The Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner was designed to compete directly with the popular Airbus 340-500, which has a flight range of 16,700 kilometers (10,380 miles).

Boeing said that after leaving Hong Kong, the jet flew across the northern Pacific Ocean before reaching North America, where it flew over Los Angeles, then slightly south of Chicago and over New York before cruising over the Atlantic Ocean to London. Hong Kong-London flights usually fly over Russia.
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I'd definitely go nutts if I had to spend 20+ hours in a plane. :?
I can barely survive the 2-3hours flight when I go back from NL to either Bulgaria or Hungary for visiting family. So boring, can't do anything but sit in some crappy economy class seat.
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if ya have a lap top just chill and use that or even better get a mp3 player and turn that one and sleep for the whole flight
 
Even with a laptop, in economy there's barely enough room to place a cup of coffee on those small tables.
 
It's better on a Jumbo. I've got MEL-SIN then SIN-LHR to look foward to on NYE this year. MEL-SIN is 8 hours, that's fine. SIN-LHR is about 20'ish, that's a bastard of a flight.
 
I think it'd be fun! :D
 
Nah, you go insane. There are only so many movies you can watch on a plane. Even your standard Singapore - Europe trip is around 12 hours. You think it's great for the first couple of hours where you read the silly in-flight magazine and talk to the really obese German guy sitting next to you, and see what they are going to serve for dinner.

Afterwards, you realise you can't get to sleep because the really obese German guy is snoring so much, so much that you almost stuff the laminated safety card into his nostril. You try and stretch out, but the trolley serving water and orange juice bangs into your feet every 15 minutes.

When you wake up, everything smells like vomit, including that same horrible breakfast they serve on each and every flight, the horrible omlette and a really pale sausage the colour of a corpse.

And it's not like you can just get trolleyed on free booze either, because all that makes you do is run to the toilet (where someone has made an AWFUL mess in) and get a massive headache.
 
It's technically not a comercial flight, as no passengers were carried on it. Rather, it was a publicity stunt and flight test rolled into one to help Boeing sell their aircraft.

I'm the people on board weren't bored, because they were probably monitoring the aircraft for most of the time.
 
747, Detroit to Beijing, center aisle, economy class. 16 hours. No electronic gadgetry, not even headphones so you can't listen to the vomitous dialogue streaming from "Miss Congeniality". And you've already read the in-flight magazine, Skymall drivel, and safety guide in the first hour. Cover-to-cover. And pocketed the cheap pretzels they pass out every 4 hours "for later".

If I had to do that for 4 more hours, I'd have strangled myself. And everybody around me. Repeatedly.
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The worst I've ever experienced was from Cancun to PDX with a hangover. I would rather spend 20 hours on a nice big 777 with tv's than in a 767 with a mean hangover any day.
 
My great aunt is probably one of the most traveled women in the world.
She said she used to travel on propeller planes!

I think they had much "longer" journeys than what was done with the 777.
 
andyhui01 said:
hmm... but I fly HK to London nonstop?... I don't get it, I've done it with a 747...
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YEah, but this time they went around the other way.
 
The longest flight I have to say I have done was Atlanta to Honolulu on an L-1011 (that's similar to a 767, but much less comfortable). 17 hours on an aircraft with no suitable entertainment (I was 12 - 13 at the time) and I was so happy to see ground when we arrived. I'm glad Delta put those planes out of their misery.

As for Boeing doing this publicity stunt, hopefully it will sway more buyers away from buying the trash that Airbus makes. Glad to see that Boeing is actually still improving their current generation aircraft and making them more efficient.
 
Hahaha, speaking of long flights, none are longer than the ones from Malev, Hungarian Airlines. I had my worse flight experience there because: the food was awfull (that is, worse than all other airplane foods, I would eat almost everyting, but that was garbage, wouldn't be surprised if they were leftovers from the previous flight), the in-flight movies are terribly boring ... they had something like a drama with Anthony Hopkins or something like that, picture Anthony Hopkins in a drama (it just doesn't work), there were about 3 babies in my section, and if one cried, they all cried, and turning up the headphones full of music wasn't working either... they had a selection of about 13 channels of 1 hour REPEATING REPERTOIR for an 11-hour flight. I mean, come ON !!!! Other than that, it was absolutely freezing on that flight, I even measured it with my dad's high-tech watch .... 4 degrees celsius ... almost the freezing point of water ... I mean: save money on the movie, save money on the food, save money on the damn music system, BUT PLEASE, TURN ON THE HEATING SYSTEM !!!!! I couldn't even see the movie properly, the pair that were seated right in front of the screen were a pair with a baby, which would switch their seats or get up and out of their seats every 10 minutes.

That's when I vowed to either buy myself a private plane/flight, or travel by sea. It was that awful, please do not fly with MALEV, for your own sakes !!!

EDIT: Oh, and not to forget, they lost my luggage too, I got it back in 1 month :lol: , at least it was all there.
Nice immigration flight to Canada, eh ? I guess it just made the arrival here so much better. I never went back to Romania again, out of fear of terrible flights :twisted: .
 
I'm glad your still sane, well from what we know... 8)

I think for long flights, like 10+ hours, they should just knock everybody out with some sleeping gas or something.
 
vladmitu said:
It was that awful, please do not fly with MALEV, for your own sakes !!!
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That must've been quite a long time ago.

I only fly Malev in recent times, Amsterdam -> Budapest. Food is nice, drinks ok, free alcohol as well. Seats comfortable, sorta enough space for economy, pretty decent I'd say. And best part, they are not more expensive than cheap airline companies where you don't even get food. IF anything, Malev is even cheaper.

I neve book in advance, so I can not make use of cheap airline companies, since those have cheap tickets if you only book well in advance. + Malev flies from big airports, not some small cheap ass airports in the middle of nowehere. They also have several flights a day most of the time, so I can chose that as weall. And as I said, all this for the same, sometimes even cheaper price than cheap airline companies. ;)

In fact, I'm not even looking at those anymore, thinking of making myself a card at Malev because I'm 1/2way to a free ticket. :)

What you really want to avoid is Brussels Airlines. Oh dear lord... Flew that twice, once as a replacement carrier for a broken Austrian Airlines flight, and once to a flight to Bulgaria.

Food looked + smelled like dog shit, and I'm not joking here. You get a small foil can, that I burned myself on cos it was overheated. The food was still boiling in there actually, brownish something, with a few pieces of meat in it. :yucky: Salad was in a 50ml plastic can, so you can imagene, that I was starving. They use really small planes on EU flights, and that's economy class at its worst level. :thumbsdown:
 
pdanev said:
vladmitu said:
It was that awful, please do not fly with MALEV, for your own sakes !!!
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That must've been quite a long time ago.

I only fly Malev in recent times, Amsterdam -> Budapest. Food is nice, drinks ok, free alcohol as well. Seats comfortable, sorta enough space for economy, pretty decent I'd say. And best part, they are not more expensive than cheap airline companies where you don't even get food. IF anything, Malev is even cheaper.

I neve book in advance, so I can not make use of cheap airline companies, since those have cheap tickets if you only book well in advance. + Malev flies from big airports, not some small cheap ass airports in the middle of nowehere. They also have several flights a day most of the time, so I can chose that as weall. And as I said, all this for the same, sometimes even cheaper price than cheap airline companies. ;)

In fact, I'm not even looking at those anymore, thinking of making myself a card at Malev because I'm 1/2way to a free ticket. :)

What you really want to avoid is Brussels Airlines. Oh dear lord... Flew that twice, once as a replacement carrier for a broken Austrian Airlines flight, and once to a flight to Bulgaria.

Food looked + smelled like dog shit, and I'm not joking here. You get a small foil can, that I burned myself on cos it was overheated. The food was still boiling in there actually, brownish something, with a few pieces of meat in it. :yucky: Salad was in a 50ml plastic can, so you can imagene, that I was starving. They use really small planes on EU flights, and that's economy class at its worst level. :thumbsdown:
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I dunno, flew it 2 years ago, so unless they had a complete makeover, I still won't trust them. Can't complain about the drinks, those were all good. What you're telling me was true back then too, all except the food, which was bad, did they do anything about their heating, entertainment or baggage carrying habits ?
I still won't fly again though ... I don't mind inter-continental drives, even if they take longer and they're exhausting ... I'd rather drive to the alps, like old jezza did :thumbsup:
 
^ Well I'd drive it as well, trust me. However, there's one fundamental problem. The lack of 4 wheels and a steering wheel in my garage. <_<

Never had problem with laguage or heating, everything perfectly fine. They are together now in a group with KLM and NWA. So chances are you won't get a MALEV machine on a trans atlantic flight anymore. ;)

They also joined a few days ago one-world or what's it called, bigass group as well.

Well, I'd take Malev anytime over your or my national carrier. Definitely better than Tarom or AirBG, and definitely cheaper as well. :thumbsdown:
 
Tarom ... that company still exists ? who flys with them ?? :?
My mom flew with Tarom once, the plane was rattling the whole way, she was scared of heights ever since. :lol:
 
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