The Rise of 20-Hour Long Flights

As I mentioned at the end, I also did a video on the longest duration commercial flight in the world on my other channel, Half as Interesting--a little collaboration with myself. Check that video out here: https://youtu.be/EDeJKQSyGXI

This is dumb!
Staying in a plane for more than 10 hours!

How in the hell can someone tolerate such a nuisance?!

Long flights just seem like an inconvenience to me. Anything longer than 6 hours honestly is just not worth it. I'd take 3 short flight than a long 10+ hour flight, even if it costs me extra.

Qantas is a poorly managed airline consistently losing money, and is more expensive than airlines like Singapore airlines. Their service is good though but for most price will win out

From what I can tell, a nonstop Auckland-London will not exists for well over 10 years.

After I watching this video, I finally figure out of some reasons here. Why Emirates can't launch flights from Dubai to Panama? Firstly, distance from Dubai to Panama is 13821km or about 8200 miles. That means it's a long haul flight for Emirates, about 17h 35m for direct flight. Secondly, Panama City is a main leisure destinations in Central America, not for business destinations. While Dubai is a mixing city between business and leisure destinations, I don't think their flight could it work for Emirates because flying in economy class on ultra long haul flights is notoriously expensive especially leisure budget travellers. We will noticed that economy class on ultra long haul route will be half empty. They need to make a stop via somewhere in Europe before reach to Dubai from Panama City to avoid expensive payloads. The same reason goes for Lima, Peru, which is also much further from Dubai, approximately 19 hours for direct flight.

As someone who lives in Australia, I can confirm this

Every time I see a video of hypersonic flights that last 20 minutes from New York to Melbourne on YouTube, I just laugh. If they only know how astronomically expensive such a flight would be to operate as a transportation company. The complexity and logistics of such hypersonic vehicles are on a different planet. It would make a flight on a private chartered luxury business jet super cheap. Supersonic travel is ultra expensive due to extra fuel and frequent highly specialized maintenance. Hypersonic ballistic flights would be impossibly expensive except for the very few billionaires. Such hypersonic vehicles are best used for pushing booster payloads into orbit, not from surface to surface destinations. The costs would be absurd.

This is so ungreen. What would Greta Thornberg say? They also need a stretch version that trades some range for increased capacity, since carrying 4000 miles of fuel is not fuel efficient, so planes should refuel within 2000 miles whenever possible. This also allows passengers to stretch their legs, thereby reducing legroom requirements, which again increases efficiency.

$0.85 a gallon for jet fuel, less than the cost of gasoline in any country, even in Venezuela, where it’s $1 a gal.

"Because people are more sensitive to time than boxes."


*Amazon Prime has entered the chat*

I live in Australia and i have never and hate qantas

*I used the fuel to carry the fuel*

Air India operates the world's longest flight in the shortest time

Are you pursuing any degree in Aviation? Brilliant research and execution.

By the way, airline speeds haven't increased in 50-60 years. And airport boarding had increased by hours. Example..."Cheers", 1980s: Sam had just one hour to get to the Boston airport. A friend said, "You have time, Sam ". Wow.

Any flight over 4-5 hours means premium econ. for me. No nudging of elbows and leg relief. I have a modest income. But worth the extra dollars.

Surprisingly, I’ve found that most direct flight are cheaper than connections.

It’s always Newark

I flew Newark to Singapore.
Not as bad as it may sound.

I think we're good on distance, we need to figure out how to make these trips quicker. Flying is like being in a bus. Even a 2 hour flight is enough to drive you mad

I’m an aviation enthusiast but spending 19 nonstop hours in the air seems to be a bit of a stretch for me.

Hawaii to ZURICH via Vancouver next week. 15 hours of travel time, not to bad compared to other flights you mentioned.

20 hours? I only flew a 12 hour flight from Manila to Los Angeles once in my life, back when my family and I were migrating from Singapore to Canada, and I already feel like I don't want to go back to Asia anymore just because I couldn't handle it...

20 hours long haul in an economic seat= hell! Before I can afford a business class that’s not going to be my option!

The earth is certainly not flat. About time flat earthers shut up.

The longest flight I have ever was on Emirate was Dubai to New York jfk (sorry for the bad grammar)

WOW, wonderful information.

Not even if they paid me. Jesus

Btw BA flys more than 1 a day to Australia

it's strange, but i personally prefer a flight where you get to stop halfway. the change in pace and another set of takeoff and landing just make the journey less boring

i just came back from vacation in hawaii and the picture of hawaii was right where i stood

They need to go super sonic again.

Everybody pissing and moaning about being in Economy for 16+ hours and saying they fly Premium Economy or Business - remember, you're in a metal tube in the sky with 2 people controlling your destiny - i'm just happy to make it to the other end.

I've done the Sydney-Dallas flight a couple of years ago, made worse by a mad run to clear customs, run to the other terminal, and try to get a connecting flight to Mexico at the end...you're a puddle of human at the end of it.

I still think the goal is an electric motor for take-off, with the fuel engines kicking in at cruising altitude. The fuel sources can act as a safety reserve for each other, plus you're not burning massive fuel during thrust. It would also allow for additional range.
I'm sure they already have a prototype of this working, but just throwing it out there.

Correction on SQ21&SQ22: 17h30m-19h.

these plane videos hit different even tho i hate flying it’s so uncomfortable 😂

Just got off a 16-hour flight with a stop in Taiwan, in economy, hated it... But thank you for the explanation on the economic aspects of long flights. I always thought it would be cheaper to fly non-stop.

Manchester UK to San Francisco CA was a fuck off flight, felt like smashing the window and jumping out

Still waiting on Toronto to Melbourne...

Those poor Air flight attendants, could you imagine working a 20hr shift? I can barely handle the typical 8 hr shift!

i wish you were just, like, better #HalfAsInteresting

nearly slit my wrists on 14 hour flight from LA to London 😣

The longest Flight I ever took was London to Miami. I had no problem with that but I don't know if I could endure more than double that on a plane maybe first class but I wouldn't be able to afford that.

Thank God USA didn't have a different unit for time

So, somebody thinks this is an achievement but i can tell you through personal experience, these flights are hell...unless of course, you don't mind coughing up $25,000 so you can lie down and be pretentious about the wine and the tiny little plates of food. It's just absurd.

A 20hr flight will really destroy Etihad, Emirates and the like. Nobody wants to stop there. Singapore is interesting, HK the same, but the Middle East is just skippable.

Please talk about of economic failIure of AIRBUS A-380

No thanks