{"id":326,"date":"2016-02-25T18:38:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2016-02-25T18:38:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:38:14","slug":"worlds-longest-flight-thats-about-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/worlds-longest-flight-thats-about-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s longest flight? That&#8217;s about to change &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>So what is the longest scheduled air route in the world at the moment?<\/strong> If you said Panama-Dubai, you&#8217;d be right &#8211; but only for a few more days. As things stand, the PTY-DXB route, all 7463nm of it, takes on average 17 hrs 30.<\/p>\n<p>With the introduction of the Boeing 787, the number of routes around the 7000nm mark is steadily increasing, to the point that we&#8217;re probably going to have to stop calling them &#8220;Ultra Long Haul Routes&#8221;. They are becoming the new norm. United are operating a SFO-SIN route with the 787-9 at 7339nm, and LAX-MEL at 6905nm.<\/p>\n<p>From March 1st, the longest route in the world will become <strong>Auckland-Dubai<\/strong>, operated by Emirates with a B777-200LR. The leg distance is <strong>7668nm<\/strong>, and westbound this will be around 17 hrs 15. Use of the AUSOTS Track System and extension of UPR&#8217;s (User Preferred Routes) into the\u00a0New Zealand FIR has allowed this route to work, so that UAE can select the\u00a0optimum wind routing for much more of the flight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what is the longest scheduled air route in the world at the moment? If&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[265,264,119,268,37,266,267,262,263,269],"class_list":{"0":"post-326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-special-report","8":"tag-777-200lr","9":"tag-264","10":"tag-auckland","11":"tag-ausots","12":"tag-dubai","13":"tag-emirates","14":"tag-longest-route","15":"tag-nzaa","16":"tag-omdb","17":"tag-upr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}