What are The World's Longest Scheduled Flights?

What are the world's longest scheduled air routes by distance and block time? As Emirates Airline reveals plans to launch a Dubai - Panama City route in February 2016, Routesonline investigates.

For a long time, Singapore Airlines has held the position of operating the world's longest scheduled flight, however, the closure of its flights from Singapore to Los Angeles and New York after its retirement of its Airbus A340-500 fleet earlier this decade, has meant the Pacific connection of Qantas Airways between Sydney and Dallas, now operated by the A380 SuperJumbo, took over as the longest commercial passenger route.

Find out more about the world's new longest distance scheduled air route from Emirates Airline between Dubai and Panama City here.

At 8,580 miles, the Dubai - Panama City route is mere eleven miles longer than Qantas' existing Sydney – Dallas route (8,569 miles). The flying time for the new Emirates service will be 17hrs 35mins for EK251 to Central America and 15hrs 45mins for EK251 back to Dubai. This will be 20-25 minutes longer than existing Delta Air Lines westbound service from Dubai to Atlanta and 40 minutes longer then Delta’s Northbound service from Johannesburg to Atlanta.

Using OAG Schedules Analyser data we highlight the current top 30 longest non-stop scheduled flights.