World's Longest Non-Stop Passenger Flights

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

World's Longest Non-Stop Passenger Flights

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Key Findings

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New York JFK - Singapore leads in Great-Circle Distance (km) with 15,349 in 2025.
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Average Great-Circle Distance (km) 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.

About This Dataset

World's Longest Non-Stop Passenger Flights
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.
Analysis

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.

Data Insights

Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart

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Data Points
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10 categories  ·  1 year
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Top Value
15,349
New York JFK - Singapore
Great-Circle Distance (km) · 2025
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Great-Circle Distance (km)
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Period
2025
Single year snapshot

Methodology & source

Data source
Wikipedia (Longest flights, great-circle distance)
Coverage
10 entities · 2025 · 10 observations
Measure
Great-Circle Distance (km)
Last updated
10 July 2026
Compiled by
The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
  • Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
  • Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2025.

Rankings & Full Data

10 records · Great-Circle Distance (km) · ranked by 2025

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# Category 2025 Source
🥇 New York JFK - Singapore 15,349
🥈 Newark - Singapore 15,344
🥉 Auckland - Doha 14,535
4 Perth - London Heathrow 14,499
5 Dallas-Fort Worth - Melbourne 14,472
6 Perth - Paris CDG 14,264
7 New York JFK - Auckland 14,207
8 Auckland - Dubai 14,200
9 Shenzhen - Mexico City 14,147
10 Los Angeles - Singapore 14,114

Data Sources & References

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