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The world’s shortest Airbus A380 flights
Starting with a quick A380 flight of just over two hours, here are the world's five shortest superjumbo routes... (www.ausbt.com.au) 更多...
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most of time qf dallas to sydney usually diverts to brisbane ybbn
The last paragraph talks about the LONGEST 380 flight being from LAX down to Melbourne. Good old Boeing has that beat and om the same airline. Qantas flies the 747 from DFW to down under somewhere so they don't need to brag too much.
Airbus can still brag because the longest non-stop in the world right now is Newark to Singapore done by Singapore Airlines = 15,345 KM with an A340-500. The flight you are talking about is 3rd at 13,804 KM.
Problem with that one.
Since most of that leg (and it's KDFW-YSSY, BTW), is that the flight back down to Sydney is against the winds so badly that more times than not, they've had to make a stop in Fiji or Tahiti to refuel. Distance wise, it is longer than KLAX-YMML, but taking that stop for fuel into account, their now "world's longest flight", since SIA dropped the KEWR-WSSS flight, QFA's Dallas-Sydney run doesn't make it all the way back in one flight.
Since most of that leg (and it's KDFW-YSSY, BTW), is that the flight back down to Sydney is against the winds so badly that more times than not, they've had to make a stop in Fiji or Tahiti to refuel. Distance wise, it is longer than KLAX-YMML, but taking that stop for fuel into account, their now "world's longest flight", since SIA dropped the KEWR-WSSS flight, QFA's Dallas-Sydney run doesn't make it all the way back in one flight.
You are correct although you don't see that fuel stop in the schedule.lol. As Alistair says below in talking about the 340, I may be a Boeing man but from 707 days, I miss having 4 hanging out there. I can see the economics of it but there is nothing more gracful out there right now than a 340. They to will fall by the way after a few years.
It is a refitted & upgraded 747 carrying a max of 364 pax. A standard 747 can't make it without a refuelling stop.
