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I am a big fan of continental flight 1. I was on the inaugural #1 iah-hnl back when it was a 747 continuing to nrt rather than gum.

As far as the next day going to Tokyo, Continental Micronesia has flights from Guam nonstop to Tokyo.

Dallas to Tokyo on an AA 772.

Yep, I knew I could get a flight to Narita from Guam, and it would of been roughly 3 hours. That would have been wonderful. It was so tiring for me to travel all those miles in a few days, but there was a reason, well, kinda....I was with my sister-in-law who has a fear of flying, and she was freaking out about flying home by herself. Got herself all worked up into a frenzy, so I promised to fly back with her. Now, I am not the most relaxed person when it comes to flying, but she's a wreck. I swear though, I would never do that again. The bright side, though, to all of those miles, is I really started to understand that flying was safe. I had to be strong for someone else, which in turn made me stronger. I want to go back to Guam.........

international: JFK to FRA on a Lufthansa 747 was about 6.5 or 7 hours
within the US: Either EWR-SEA on a Cotinental 757 I think it was or SFO-JFK on a United 767 both of those were about 4.5 hours, however the SFO-JFK one seemed longer because it was a redeye, while at least EWR-SEA was during daylight hours.

Military or Civilian ?

Civilian prolly the one I took for Boeing here recently KPAE-KPAE 12 hours.

Military, Many a 15-16 hour missions.

Done a few coast to coast in the G200, nothing more then 5.5. Still waiting for that Europe trip!

As best as I can piece this memory together .... on a National 727-135 when I was about nine years old ... amazing itinerary. I believe they ran this itinerary as Flight 474 or maybe it was Flight 492, up until they got sucked into PanAm in 1979/1980.

SFO > LAS > IAH > MSY > MOB > PNS > PFN > TLH.
I think it took around 8 hours. Not the longest single segment flight I've ever taken, but it felt like it. I remember also I was in a middle seat with a crappy view. In later years I flew into most of those airports at one time or another and realized the great views I missed on that transcontinental route from the 70s.

My one longest segment without question was SAA from ATL to JNB on a 744 in 1999.
Going eastbound (or is it southeastbound) it was right at 17 hours. On the return the flight made a technical stop in FLL and the total time was about 19 hours.

A very unpleasant memory of a long flight was on AF 050 CDG > ORD summer 2008.
I was in the back row of a 340, no recline, middle seat middle section ... surrounding by hyperactive 9-10-11 year old French boys on their trip to the US. By the time we flew over Greenland I was about ready to slap somebody. "Monsieur, I can't sleeeeep."
9hr 38min of pure living hell.

MIA to LHR, a bit over 8 hours, did a round trip.

LAX-SYD, 14 and a half hours.

The trip out was Sydney to Austin TX, over 30 hours from take-off to touch down in Texas via LAX and DEN (obviously not non-stop). I had about 3 hours' sleep on that flight and never caught up during the following week in Austin.

As a result I slept for 10 hours after departure from LAX on the way home: in economy, at the rear of the cabin, regardless of the fact my knees were jammed into the food tray as per usual (I'm 6'4").

Ergo, most enjoyable long-haul ever.

My apology if this "airline" doesn't qualify for this thread.

I was an enlisted Air Force passenger on a M.A.T.S. (Military Air Transport Service) C-124 on a 12-hour, or more, flight from Honolulu to Sacramento in 1955. Uncle Sam also provided me with several long flights twixt Honolulu and Tokyo aboard MATS C-121s and/or C-97s. There were also some shorter, very interesting, "frights" in the mid-1950s aboard C-46, C-47, C-54, and C-119. No "frills," no cost, no baggage fees on any of these trips.

My thanks to all who participate in FlightAware.

Harveymc
Hot Springs Village, Arkansas

I've always considered MATS and its successors to be an airline. It has all of the characteristics of an airline - flights, passenger terminals, etc.

ATL - OGG date was 2002

Up in the pointy end of the airplane I've done 6:05-6:15 quite a few times, mostly EGSS-OEJN with a couple of KBOS-EGSS with a good tailwind (60+) or Bangor-VNY with very little headwind (like 1 gusting to 2).
In the back probably Frankfurt-LAX more times than I can remember, usually it's the second of three fun filled flights that day.


John in Saudi

KATL TO PHNL ........Also KJFK TO Barcelona. Both flights were for cruise vacations.

New York to Johannesburg on a South African Airways B747. Great flight - 14hours 40 minutes

Last week I was on Alitalia 620 Rome to LAX, in coach. This was actually a great flight. It 'felt' much quicker than DAL 40 MSP to LHR. That was a cramped flight, and stuck in the middle of the center seating section...

The Alitalia 777 window seats, you can place your legs each side of the AV box below the seat in front of you, and actually stretch your legs out fully. Felt so nice.
12 h 22 m

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AZA6 ... /LIRF/KLAX

KORD To Moscow then on to upper Siberia. Citation Encore and yes a fuel stop or two one in very bad icing and heavy crosswinds i mean these suckers were heavy. Fly Safe!

Crosswinds sound like Iceland.
I flew a Lear 55 trip to the medium sized city of Izhevsk which is about 400 miles NE of Moscow 17 or 18 years ago. In February. The weather was typical arctic, clear and 100 miles, but man it was white everywhere. The 25 mile drive into town was interesting. The road was plowed all the way down to the asphalt into snow that must have been at least 15 maybe 20 feet deep. Intersections were a bit dicey.

Toronto to Hong Kong, nearly 16 hours.

round trip EWR - SIN. Each segment was 18.5 hours.

EWR - SIN flew over AMS and down across India. SIN - EWR flew across the pacific making landfall slightly north of YVR.

Last Feb. 2011 ORD to Vancouver(YVR) Then on To Sydney(SYD). The flight from YVR To SYD was listed at 15.30 hours. Fortunatley it was only 14.30. Total flight hours 18.30 hours in air time. If they kept to the airline listed times it would've been almost 20 hours. just under. Alot of flying. And a six hour layover in Vancouver. Boeing 777-200 Air Canada. Late model 777 with my own video screen. The food, fare. Flight crew great. Vancouver is a nice airport and City, I had a chance to visit briefly. Awsome , very nice city. I flew through Vancouver, best price and newer equipment then United. Maybe a longer flght, but not by a big margin. Well worth flying newer eq. then United's older 747's. They're just starting to upgrade those planes. From bording to exiting the plane over 15 hours. How did I do it ? I"m not sure. Australia was well worth it. Maybe i'll do it again someday.

KEWR-RJAA 13ish hours (after 10 I've found it doesn't really matter much)
I had flown in from morocco the day before and had tweaked my back helping one of the pax with her suitcase that was so big you could probably fit a couple average size children in it.
Thank god I got upgraded.


It's still here

So far LAX-SYD as a kid, but soon to be JFK-HKG.

That's because there probably were a couple of children in it.

That or a goat. Neither would have really surprised me.