The flight –originally planned back in December last year– will take off from Doha this Sunday morning at 5:10 am and is scheduled to arrive at 7:30 am on Monday. It will pass over Dubai, Oman, India and Sri Lanka, then over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia before descending to Auckland. Qatar Airways Flight 920 will cover a distance of 9,032 miles (14,535 km), taking 16 hours and 20 minutes, spanning 10 times zones in the process. The flight back is expected to take more time: 17 hours 30 minutes due to jet streams.
4 pilots and 15 cabin crew will take care of your comfort and safety, the Boeing 777-200LR can host up to 42 business class passengers and 217 in economy class.
Currently the longest route is Dubai to Auckland, a flight operated by Qatar’s neighbour Emirates, with 8,902 miles. But Singapore Airlines is (re)planning a route between Singapore and New York in 2018 covering 9,529 miles (497 miles longer).
This post was published on 4 February 2017 20:56
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