Any further and you’d end up going the long way round – which might be an impressive feat, but it won’t be particularly helpful. The longest point-to-point flight possible is from Quito (UIO) in Ecuador to Pekanbaru (PKU) in Indonesia, at around 12,420 miles. So what’s next? Are there any distance records left to break? The Longest Flight Physically Possible It marked a peak in the age of “ultra-long-haul” flights non-stop journeys that employ the longest routes physically possible, topping out at 20 hours of flight time.
In October 2019, Qantas Flight 7879 travelled 10,000 miles from New York to Sydney – in 19 hours and 16 minutes.
