World's longest commercial flight: Qatar to New Zealand in almost 16 hours

Courtesy: TVNZ Qatar Airways is bidding for the longest commercial flight record as its jet lands in Auckland airport, after flying from Doha for a total of 15 hours and 50 minutes. The CEO of Qatar Airlines, Akbar Al Baker, who was on board the flight said, ‘I am here at the end of the world, and I am very pleased’, adding, ‘this is going to be the longest commercial flight that exists today.’ There is, of course, a little bit of disagreement between airlines as to which flight is longer as Air India argues that its Delhi-San Francisco flight is the longest, clocking up a distance of 9,506 miles. This isn’t based on the “Great Circle” distance (shortest route between two points on a sphere), however, flying over the Pacific Ocean instead of the Atlantic Ocean, which adds almost 1,400 km. According to the “Great Circle” route, Doha and Auckland are further apart on the surface of the Earth. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/82dm RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/rt Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT Listen to us on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rttv RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.

Comments

1. no one beat Malaysian airlines tnough
2. This should send a shiver down everyone's spin who live in NZ. A totally Muslim country that totally sponsors and supports terrorism, now has a direct flight right to our fucken doorstep! Well done dip shit politicians.
3. This is exactly what we were looking RT. And thank you so much on behalf of all FEers. And congratulations on this achievement.
4. It doesn't make the trip from Europe to New Zealand any shorter. The route via Tokyo is the shortest.If you change flights in Qatar or in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Vancouver, San Francisco, Houston, Los Angeles or in Buenos Aires it will take the same amount of time.        I don't like muslims in New Zealand. They multiply like rats.     I would never visit a muslim country and I will never fly a muslim airline like Emirates
5. Direct Flight for the Elites to flee to the bunkers..
6. The earth is flat
   Foolish Russians and Americans are dragging people to hellfire
7. Fly the Rape-fugees into Qatar!
8. QATAR=terrorisim =JEWS PUPPETS
9. Woman who visit there ,careful don't get raped ,u could go to jail
10. I boycott an airline of a nation that is funding terrorist and bombing people in other nations.
    If I could know what nation the petrol I buy comes from, I would boycott it too.
    I will never fly with them.
11. Airliners cheat: to save fuel they reduce speeds dramatically hence the 16 hour flight
12. Does the plane have to always face Mecca? , or just 3 times a day? I hope the Aisle is big enough to fit all them prayer mats. Hey now they truly will be flying carpets hahahaha
13. Who the hell wants to spend 16 hours on a place? The 12-14 we already have to LA is bad enough
14. What a tragedy for NZ, maybe this is one of the reasons John Key left his position…
15. Matthew 4:8 “The Devil took Jesus Christ to an exceeding high mountain and show him all the kingdoms of the earth and its glory.
    Luke 4:5 the devil, taking him (Jesus) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world”
    Now Even if you go to the Tallest Mountain in the World, Mount Everest, and supposedly, you have a very good vision and can see for thousands of miles together, Yet you will not be able to see all the Kingdom of Earth, because today we know that the Earth is spherical. The only way you will see it all if the earth was flat (Which it isn’t) but that’s what the bible portrays the earth is flat based on the verse.
    
    Daniel 4:10-11 says in a dream, a tree grew up all the way up to the heavens, it grow up so much that everyone from all the angles of the earth could see it.
    This is only possible if the shape of the earth was flat. If the tree was very long and the shape of the earth is flat its possible, (BUT ITS NOT FLAT)
16. 16 hours on a plane? Hell fucking no.... I don't care if they put me in 1st class, I'm not sitting on a plane for that long.
17. Epic combover mayne
18. just waiting for the Boeing vs Airbus comments