By Peninsula Online
Doha: Qatar Airways Flight QR 920 is scheduled to leave Doha on Sunday at 5:10 am and cross 10 time zones before arriving in Auckland, New Zealand, on Monday at 7:30 am.
This journey of 16 hours and 20 minutes will become the longest passenger flight in the world covering 9,032 miles.
The Boeing 777-200LR will pass over Dubai, then through northern Oman, southern tip of India, Sri Lanka and then crosses over Indian Ocean, Western Australia and will start the descent after 16 hours and 20 minutes on Monday morning.
Currently the longest route is also to Auckland from Dubai.
So if you want to be part of the longest passenger flight then seats are still available as of filing this report. When last checked a one-way economy saver ticket was available for QR4605.
The return flight, QR921, leaves Auckland airport at 2.40pm and reaches Doha same night 10:10pm.
The 5 longest routes are:
- Doha-Auckland: 9,032 miles
- Dubai-Auckland: 8,824 miles
- Dallas-Sydney: 8,578 miles
- Johannesburg-Atlanta: 8,439 miles
- Singapore-San Francisco: 8,434 miles