After 19 hours and 18 minutes in the air’s Boeing 787-9 aircraft landed in the australian city of Sydney on the night of Thursday local time, after being relieved 17.800 miles away in London.
This was the record for the world’s longest flight without a stop beaten.
the Plane landed at 12.30 local time in Sydney international airport, with just 52 passengers and crew members. The boardede the plane in London at 06.30 british time.
Flyruten is part of an attempt by the airline Qantas.
the Company has previously tested the route between New York and Sydney, which are 1500 miles shorter, but only a minute faster due to less momentum.
Before the plane took off from London on Thursday morning local time, said Qantas’ ceo, Alan Joyce, to flights without stop should be the norm within the next few years.
– We know that the travelers would like to have room to move on these long trips.
– And the exercises, we recommended that they should make, worked really well.
– We are going to install udstrækningszoner and other measures, he says, according to australian media news.com.au.
