What is the longest turboprop route in the world?
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What is the longest turboprop route in the world?
And as you guess I mean the longest "commercial" flight.
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Re: What is the longest turboprop route in the world?
And I suppose you mean "actually" too? Otherwise, Loftleidir's CL44's would be a strong candidate with their Luxembourg-Keflavik-New York route. Or perhaps Aeroflot Tu114 on various routes? The Tu-114 was specifically designed for long-haul!
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Re: What is the longest turboprop route in the world?
assuming that we are talking about current services rather than historic ones I would think that Air Tahiti ( not to be confused with its big brother Air Tahiti Nui ) must be a candidate with routes such as PPT-NHV ( 1405 km ) , PPT-HIX ( 1434 km ) and PPT-GMR ( 1654 km - 4h 25m on the days when it operates nonstop )
they have a great route map on their website - it shows their Polynesian route network superimposed over a map of Europe at the same scale - I hope the link below works - and remember this network is flown by ATR42 and ATR72 a/c only !
http://www.airtahiti.aero/popup.php?fic ... reseau.htm
they have a great route map on their website - it shows their Polynesian route network superimposed over a map of Europe at the same scale - I hope the link below works - and remember this network is flown by ATR42 and ATR72 a/c only !
http://www.airtahiti.aero/popup.php?fic ... reseau.htm
Re: What is the longest turboprop route in the world?
not sure about the current routings flown by turboprops , but in the past this must have been the route flown by Aeroflot with TU114 : Moscow - Havanna non stop 5900 NM
Moscow tokyo was also flown in these days nonstop - 4700 NM
Moscow tokyo was also flown in these days nonstop - 4700 NM
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Re: What is the longest turboprop route in the world?
How far did the Bristol Britannia fly when that was in operation? That was introduced on longish range services (it certainly operated to North America but I don't know where else).
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