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Qantas Dreamliner flight QF7879 took 19 hours and 16 minutes to complete longest ever commercial flight directly from New York to Sydney. Qantas has successfully tested the new world's longest flight, a nonstop from New York to Sydney. The flight, designated QF7879, became the longest commercial flight in the world, surpassing Singapore Airlines regular commercial service between Singapore and New York.
This is a real milestone journey from New York that Qantas hopes to parlay into commercial success.
The test flights are part of “Project Sunrise”, a plan by Qantas to operate nonstop commercial flights from the east coast of Australia to London, New York, Paris, Frankfurt and destinations in Latin America and Africa. This is the first of three "ultra long-haul" journeys planned by the airline this year. Next month, Qantas will test a direct flight from Heathrow to Sydney, which will set a new distance record of 17,000km and take about 19.5 hours.
Airplanes and airlines are more technically advanced than ever before, with better fuel efficiency, longer ranges, and computer-aided logistical planning. But as some flights get longer, the question is whether passengers and flight crews can tolerate more hours in the air without a layover to break things up. To research this further, Qantas partnered with two Australian universities to monitor how jetlag affected the health of passengers and crew members as they crossed multiple time zones.
So, who were the lucky or adventurous participants in this long journey. Its just 49 people which included six pilots, six members of cabin crew including a chef, a handful of reporters, six frequent flyers and the airline’s chief executive, Alan Joyce were on board the Boeing Dreamliner flight
As this long test flight was designed to check whether passengers can endure the physical and mental effects of extremely long aeroplane journeys, the flight was restricted to such a small number of passengers in order to ensure that it was light enough to make it all the way to Australia on one tank of fuel. In order to reduce the weight, strict restrictions were put in place, including limiting passengers’ luggage and destocking most of the bar.
Point to be noted is that Qantas last year introduced the first direct service from the western Australian city of Perth to London, with the 17-hour journey one of the longest passenger flights in the world.
The flights would provide invaluable research data on the comfort and wellbeing of passengers and crew as the airline prepares to make a decision by the end of the year on whether to launch direct commercial services to New York and London by the end of 2022.
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