World's Longest Non-Stop Passenger Flights

About This Dataset

This chart lists the world's longest scheduled non-stop passenger flights, ranked by great-circle distance in kilometers. These ultra-long-haul routes, some lasting close to 19 hours, are operated with specialised long-range aircraft such as the Airbus A350-900ULR and Boeing 787-9. Singapore Airlines, Qantas and Qatar Airways dominate the list.

✨ AI Insight

Singapore Airlines holds the top two positions, flying from New York JFK (15,349 km) and Newark (15,344 km) to Singapore, the only two routes exceeding 15,000 kilometers. Below them the field is remarkably tight: seven of the remaining eight routes fall between 14,114 and 14,535 kilometers, a spread of barely 400 km. Qantas appears most frequently, operating or co-operating four routes including Perth-London (14,499 km) and Dallas-Melbourne (14,472 km), a reflection of Australia's geographic isolation. The list is dominated by connections between the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas or Europe, showing that the longest flights exist to link cities on opposite sides of the globe where no shorter routing is commercially viable.

Source: Wikipedia (Longest flights, great-circle distance)

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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New York JFK - Singapore leads with 15,349 in 2025.

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Average value in 2025: 14,513 · median: 14,368.

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Gap in 2025: New York JFK - Singapore is 1.1× larger than Los Angeles - Singapore.