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The World's Top 5 Longest Flights to Australia and New Zealand

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Multiple airlines offer ultra-long-haul flights to Australia and New Zealand to accommodate high demand among international travelers. Eight of the world's 20 longest nonstop routes by distance involve four destinations: Auckland (AKL), Melbourne (MEL), Perth (PER), and Sydney (SYD). These are the world's longest flights serving Australia and New Zealand. (aeroxplorer.com) Mais...

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NeilPostlethwaiteItsAllBroken
Neil Postlethwaite 8
16h15m in Economy …. Kill me now !!😳
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yr2012
matt jensen 2
11 hrs kills me from KATL-FACT
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sasdrtx
Steve Smith 5
I had the "pleasure" of riding OF10 in January, and very fortunately in Business class. It was fine except for two things: 1. NO WI-FI. Hard to believe in this day & age on a 787. 2. The very obnoxious policy of keeping the electronic window shades dark almost until final approach. Who needs 15 hours of darkness?
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CAH747
CLARENCE HELLER 1
It is nice to pay for a ticket to ride, but what about the drivers?? I did it for7 years and 2 a month was enough, out and back then some 3 hour local hops. close out the month of flying.
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swinkey58
Daniel Hagan 1
How did you pass the time? Were you able to get up and move around in the cockpit? What is acceptable / expected behavior? I’m uncomfortable flying to Hawaii with a layover in California.
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jefftaylor421
Jeff Taylor 1
We flew IAH = Auckland last year on Air New Zealand, sat up front, the food and service was exceptional. But $9,000 for a ticket, the seat itself was horrible as was the configuration of the seats in the forward cabin. I would not fly again in business on their planes.
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Stepheneh
Stepheneh -1
Flying is not the most entertaining experience, and long-haul even less so. In more than twenty years of global travel I have only ever had five business class flights, as someone else was paying. Everything else has been in economy, and 'knowing how to travel' is the key and there are ways to make it much easier.

1. If possible, get an exit row seat.
2. Always, always, get a window seat.
3. Keep active, getting up and walking the cabin and doing exercises EVERY hour after the first four.
4. DO NOT drink much alcohol but keep hydrated
5. DO NOT just give up and go to sleep, you'll feel worse.
6. Wear flight socks and loose clothing
7. Break the flight up into short phases. Each one becomes a 'win'

I've made hundreds of flights from Beijing to Bolivia and Australia to the Arctic.

I'd rather travel instantly by matter transporter of course, but think about the flight and manage your time
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DNev
DNev 9
To each his own, but...
I may not do as much long distance traveling as it sounds like you do, but I have disagree with points 2 and 3. They are opposed to each other,...unless you like bothering the people sitting next to you.

Most of the flights I've been on have a 3,4,3 seating arrangement. My recommendation is Always, always get an isle seat. Ideally, one on the inside set of four seats as opposed to the window set of three. Having an isle seat leaves you free to get up often to walk or just stand and stretch. Having an inside isle seat vs. a window isle means you only have one person who may need you to get up so they can exit the row instead of two if a window row is picked.

As to point 7, get as direct a flight as you can. The more legs included the longer the agony of getting to your destination. The more legs in a trip, the greater the chances of delayed flights and or missed connections...making a long flight even longer. If you are getting up and walking about, going as direct as possible is only going to save you time will be the most comfortable over all. Short of flying business or 1st class.

And forgive what may be a stupid question, but what are "flight socks"?
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Peredon
Pete Perez 3
Probably means compression socks. I'm all about getting the upgrade on the way to an overseas destination when going on vacation. I love sleeping on the flight and waking up ready to go. In economy over night flights it takes me days to recover regardless of the tactics I've used.
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paldridg
Peter Aldridge 4
Having travel long haul for over 30 years I must agree with many of your points. However I do disagree on the Window seat - I find moving around much easier during the flight if I am in the aisle seat. Also, the I am lucky that I can comfortably sleep, some times for 6 hours and have no ill effects - everyone is different. I will admit that I take a nighttime cold/flu tablet as this helps me breathe while asleep. I should mention I live in Australia, so almost very flight overseas is a long haul.
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TimDyck
Tim Dyck 3
Nighttime cold/flu tablet? Never thought of that, thanks for the tip.
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TimDyck
Tim Dyck 2
I take the aisle seat over any other. I am over 6 feet and unfortunately wide across the shoulders, a good build for physical sports like hockey but sucks being crowded into a seat made for midgets. The aisle allows me to spread out a bit on one side and not crush anyone around me.
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cmuncy
Chris Muncy -9
Better source plus one that has an actual date of publication on it: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/world-s-longest-flights-ultra-long-haul-b2489327.html
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dandemo
Dan Mena 7
Hi Chris, thank you for your contribution. However, the link you shared is riddled with ads (even more so than the link I shared) and is not the same story as what I shared. I wanted to share my story specifically because it was about long routes to OCEANIA, but the article you shared is about long flights in general. There are hundreds of articles about the topic you shared; I wanted to provide something unique.

Please, if you’re contributing to my squawk, make it relevant and beneficial to discussion.

As for the date of publication, my article has it displayed already, so I’m not sure what your issue with that is. I also don’t know what the significance of ‘publication date formatting’ is in the scope of flightaware squawks, so the fact you even bring it up in the first place is a bit odd.
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mikehe
Mike Hindson-Evans -4
We came out to New Zesland on March 7th, flying Emirates DXB to AKL in the superb A380. It was a wonderful experience of Emirates Business Class, landing at coffee time into Auckland at the start of seven weeks "down under".

Two weeks later, another A380 brought us from Christchurch on the three-hour hop westeards scross the Tasman Sea yo Sydney to start our month in Sudtralia


I would never doing this in scum class.
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stevegordonhorne
Steve Horn 0
You're such a classy guy. Karma will even you out...
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