Comments on: The 10 Longest Domestic Flights in the World https://samchui.com/2023/12/28/the-10-longest-domestic-flights-in-the-world/ Sam Chui Aviation & Travel Thu, 11 Jan 2024 06:43:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: Sam Chui https://samchui.com/2023/12/28/the-10-longest-domestic-flights-in-the-world/#comment-344181 Thu, 11 Jan 2024 06:43:58 +0000 https://samchui.com/?p=50353#comment-344181 In reply to Daryl-Atlanta.

Kindly note that ATL to HNL is 4,502 in miles, but not in nautical miles.

]]> By: Jason https://samchui.com/2023/12/28/the-10-longest-domestic-flights-in-the-world/#comment-344115 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:41:35 +0000 https://samchui.com/?p=50353#comment-344115 Canada is missing from the honorable mention. Montreal Vancouver for example is a 5.5 hour flight

]]> By: Daryl-Atlanta https://samchui.com/2023/12/28/the-10-longest-domestic-flights-in-the-world/#comment-344100 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:09:56 +0000 https://samchui.com/?p=50353#comment-344100 ATL to HNL is 4,502 NMi per Great Circle Mapper (making it the 3rd longest domestic leg & longest USA Domestic Leg) and not the 3,912 NMi shown as 8th place in the article. I did not compare any of the other article’s stated mileage distances against the GCM database. JSYK.

]]> By: Jan - Tadeusz Jaroszynski https://samchui.com/2023/12/28/the-10-longest-domestic-flights-in-the-world/#comment-344086 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 11:46:46 +0000 https://samchui.com/?p=50353#comment-344086 A very interesting article even allowing for the apparent technical correction concerning AMS-Dutch Caribbean flights which, with due respect to Sam, coming from a Dutchman may clearly have some foundation. Guess it’s easy to place in one “domestic basket” so much PAR-French Caribbean as well as AMS-Dutch Caribbean flights as they are commonly classified as Overseas/Utramar territories of France and Netherlands respectively.
Am curious …. perhaps my eyes are playing tricks on me but if I’m not mistaken, the flight durations on HNL-ATL and HNL-IAD are depicted/accounted in an West-East direction for some reason…. Surely in the opposite direction due to the prevailing headwinds these flights would be longer? Whatever, congrats to Sam for his always fascinating publications!

]]> By: Baiju Nair https://samchui.com/2023/12/28/the-10-longest-domestic-flights-in-the-world/#comment-343939 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 09:15:11 +0000 https://samchui.com/?p=50353#comment-343939 Are you sure India’s longest domestic flight is only 2.30 hrs? I had a flight from Kochi (COK) to Delhi (DEL) before that was more than 3 hrs non stop.

]]> By: King F Hui https://samchui.com/2023/12/28/the-10-longest-domestic-flights-in-the-world/#comment-343245 Thu, 04 Jan 2024 03:58:00 +0000 https://samchui.com/?p=50353#comment-343245 The longest domestics route should be the one operated by French Bee during COVID19 CDG-PTP-PPT total 10643 miles or 9246 nautical miles (according to GC Maps).

During COVID19 both Air France and French Bee also operated CDG-YVR-PPT.

]]> By: Willem van Bork https://samchui.com/2023/12/28/the-10-longest-domestic-flights-in-the-world/#comment-342595 Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:12:31 +0000 https://samchui.com/?p=50353#comment-342595 Sam Chui I’m afraid that the flights between Amsterdam and the Caribbean islands are no domestic flights. Aruba and Curaçao are distinct, separate countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands and according to IATA’s definition of a domestic flight (https://www.iata.org/contentassets/04c5400c2dcd4b05a520330672b13ef6/iata-passenger-glossary-of-terms.xlsx) these flights don’t qualify as such. Interestingly, a direct flight between Amsterdam and Bonaire could on the surface be qualified as a domestic flight because Bonaire is a Dutch special municipality rather than a country, but even Bonaire has a different ISO3166 country code (BQ), shared with St Eustatius and Saba. So according to IATA’s definition, none of these flights are domestic.

]]> By: Mike from Berlin https://samchui.com/2023/12/28/the-10-longest-domestic-flights-in-the-world/#comment-342437 Thu, 28 Dec 2023 13:29:27 +0000 https://samchui.com/?p=50353#comment-342437 Technically speaking, the flights between Amsterdam and Aruba/Curacao are NOT domestic flights, as both islands are autonomous, self governing constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and you will have to go through immigration upon entry, even if flying direct. Also, both are not part of the EU.

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