Emirates
Airline is set to operate the world’s longest non-stop commercial flight
starting 2016 between Dubai and Panama City.
The Chief
Executive Officer of the airline, Ahmed-bin-Saeed al-Maktoum, said on Friday in
Dubai that the flight is set to be 17 hours and 35 minutes long would commence
from Feb. 1.
He said
Emirates would be using a Boeing 777-200LR with a capacity to carry 266
passengers over the 13,821-kilometre stretch.
Al-Maktoum
said the new stretch is 17 kilometres further than the world’s currently
longest non-stop flight, the Qantas route between Sydney and Dallas.
He noted
that Singapore Airlines for financial reasons in 2013 cancelled the
15,344-kilometre-long flight between Singapore and Newark, New Jersey.
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