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Q: The longest plane journey that you have taken from China to somewhere outside of the country.
How many hours in the air? What was the airline like? Was it a non-stop flight? Etc., etc. Have you found an easier way to redo the same journey?
11 years 19 weeks ago in Transport & Travel - China
longest commercial flight ...Singapore to Newark New Jersey ...http://zh.flightaware.com/live/flight/SIA22
Many years ago I got a good deal on a flight ... I was in Vancouver and going to Bangkok.
I went from Vancouver to LAX to Anchorage to Seoul (KAL flight 007 if anybody knows that one) to Taipei (China) and on to Bangkok.................. cheap flight!!!!!!!!!!! wonder why?? Korean Air was and is good .... yes there are and were a number of simpler ways to do this journey.
If you talk about Non Stop then here is the detail:
12 Hours in the Air (Beijing to Adis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Air Line was Ethiopian Airlines
How it was like : I asked Air Hostess for a Beer and she replied, I am coming, but she never came
Never ever go by this airlines...service is below par level..
It is the only direct flight between Beijing and Adis Ababa but now if i will get chance, i will take another via Dubai..because Ethiopian Airlines service is one of the worst i have seen..
Longest non-stop for me is from Shanghai to Chicago. They list it at 14 hours, but usually takes 13 and change. It's still a haul though.
Longest overall journey is from Shanghai to my final destination in small town southeast USA. But it's usually by my own design to accrue additional frequent flyer miles without adding any ticketing costs. The flight is from Shanghai to LAX (12 hours), layover in LAX (6 hours), redeye flight to Miami (4.5 hours), layover in Miami (2 hours), flight home (2 hours). So total time in the air is 20 hours.
But it works out nicely where if I make this roundtrip 3 times/year, then I get just enough
miles to qualify for American Airlines' Platinum status....which is good stuff. Gunning for executive platinum this year, even better stuff :P
I look for flights on price, as long as it lands and I get off, I don't care. Every flight I took in China this year was delayed or rerouted. I missed my connection coming over and going home my plane sat on the run way for 5 hours. I only made my connection because they gave me a special ride and in a back door to my next board. I had a direct flight both ways, non-stop Toronto to Beijing, I think 13 hours. The trip took 48 hours.
Last year I took this flight...
Harbin - Beijing - Vancouver - Toronto - St. Johns, Nfld.
I derived little pleasure in that one.
Took me more than 24 hours to get from Urumqi to Bangkok - it would have been maybe a five hour flight if I could have done it direct.
It takes about 36 hours to get from Hong Kong to McAllen TX if you get the discount fare. For some reason there is a 12 hour layover in Houston. If you want to pay $400 more dollars you can get a flight taht take 26 hours total.
non-stop from Shanghai to Toronto 14 1/2 hours on Air Canada, thank god for the little TV with movie channel to past the time, the food and service was actually good.
Non-stop from Shanghai to Detroit is also 14 1/2 hours. It is a long flight but better than making several connections.
