Cathay Pacific Airways plans to change the route of its scheduled flight between New York and Hong Kong to avoid Russian airspace. This would make this flight the longest commercial passenger flight in the world, the agency said in a report. Bloomberg. So far, Singapore Airlines is proud to be the operator of the longest commercial flight in the world.
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After re-routing, the length of the flight route from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport across the Atlantic Ocean, Britain, Southern Europe and Central Asia is to be 16618 kilometers. According to FlightRadar24, the Singapore Airlines route between New York and Singapore is 15,394 kilometers and the flight takes approximately 17 and a half hours. Cathay’s flight is expected to take approximately 17 hours.
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Cathay usually fly on this route over the Arctic and Russian airspace. The route is now almost 13,000 kilometers long and the flight takes an average of about 15 hours.
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The new longest route avoids Russia.
Many Asian airlines are now avoiding Russia over the conflict in Ukraine. Japan Airlines has rerouted its flight from Tokyo to London, and instead of Siberia, it flies via Alaska and Canada. The length of the flight was thus extended by four and a half hours to almost 12 hours. However, such changes are likely to be only temporary given the current high fuel prices.
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However, despite high fuel prices, airlines plan a number of extremely long flights. Qantas Airways is still considering launching 20-hour flights from Sydney to London and New York, which were postponed by a pandemic. Air New Zealand last week unveiled a new extra long route between Auckland and New York, and Qantas said on Monday that it would fly between Melbourne and Dallas. Flights with a length of over 14,000 kilometers are to be launched this year.
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