It is rumored San Diego -> Jupiter and backward.

It is rumored San Diego -> Jupiter and backward.

Yes, flying that west bound takes forever.

It is rumored San Diego -> Jupiter and backward.

What's the ICAO for Jupiter?

It's not the longest but I've flown a UAL flight from Washington Dulles to Kuwait at 12.9hrs.

I always thought it was UAL's flight KEWR-VHHH. I flew VHHH-KEWR the other day in the 772 clocked in at 14hr 27min, but then again I also did OMDB-KSEA a couple of weeks ago and that clocked in at 17hr 45min. So I agree that UAE's flights are among the longest as well as Delta's flight ATL-JNB which I have yet to try.

 

 

Remy Mermelstein

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777-300 FS Pilot

Dubai in flight sim is suddenly going to become very busy once this beauty is released (On online networks anyway)

 

Bring it on :lol:

Having flown the SFO-DXB route and reciprocal twice, 4 flights, in economy of course, I tell ya, the thought that comes to you when you realize you have spent half a day in the plane and there remains still 4 hrs before you can land, just can't be anymore pleasant. No matter what the comforts, it is just too long for an economy class.

it is just too long for an economy class.

 

And way too expensive for first class.

Having flown the SFO-DXB route and reciprocal twice, 4 flights, in economy of course, I tell ya, the thought that comes to you when you realize you have spent half a day in the plane and there remains still 4 hrs before you can land, just can't be anymore pleasant. No matter what the comforts, it is just too long for an economy class.

 

From what I here - a lot of flight deck crew hate them just as much regardless of their seat. I've never been above 13 hours personally, I really want too do an Ultra Long Haul though.

I was on EK415 last month, YSSY-OMDB 14:45, and after 10 hours those seats become really uncomfy, i couldnt image flying any longer! (I flew EK406 outbound on an A388 and was much more comfy) but still prefer the 777!

 

 

 

 

Try 13 and a half on EK201 (A380, not T7 sorry), getting down to around FL240 if I remember correctly during descent then leveling out, and then having to hear that you will circle around for an extra half hour because of heads of state coming in for the U.N. general assembly.

Nevermind the class, it gets old 7 hours into the flight in my book.

 

Did that roundtrip five times in a year, to the point where my body was way out of sink for quite some time.

The A380 was great, but as the old saying goes, careful what you wish for.....

 

My friend did the trip to KSFO with his wife and two overactive kids (8 and 10) last summer (-300ER) and survived lol.

 

On a 300ER, I was on EK901 (OMDB-OJAI)last week, which was around 3hr15min. Much easier on my body.

Takeoff, then descend before you knew it lol, even though we had a lot of turbulance for the first hour and a half at FL340.

 

The T7 is one of those success stories that was just perfect for its role, including ultra long haul trips that went beyond the designers wildest expectations in my opinion.

Every summer my friends family travels all over the world for vacation and they routinely do long flight over 10hrs. Last summer they did KEWR-VHHH-Mumbai (forget the code)-LHR-JNB-UUEE-SFO-ZBAA-LAX-JFK over 2 1/2 months with many smaller flight in between. Longest flight I have done in RW is SFO-LFPG then to LKPR. For some reason on the SFO-LFPG route they didn't go up north very much and we flew right across the us like we were going to JFK. It was a 11hr+ flight.

 

 

Remy Mermelstein

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777-300 FS Pilot

My virtual airline is going to have the 777 running EDDF - OMDB and EGKK - VHHH.