With 19-Hour Nonstop Flight, Qantas Makes Record for Ultra-Long Haul

The world's longest flight recently arrived in Sydney from New York, covering about 10,000 miles in 19 hours. While flyers usually don't prefer long flight and tend to get bored on the way, Qantas Airways created quite a stir with the recently launched flight. 

The first test flight of Qantas’ Project Sunrise took off on October 18 and 40 crew members embarked on the journey. The aim was to assess behaviours of passengers to understand how much they move around the cabin, how much they sleep and what they eat. The airline aims to launch the flights commercially in 2022.

People in the cabin were fitted with wearable technology devices. Their sleep patterns, food and beverage consumption, lighting, physical movement and inflight entertainment were monitored by scientists and medical experts from the Charles Perkins Centre willto. The objective was to assess impact on health, wellbeing and body clock.

After Qantas Flight 7879 on a new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner touched down in Sydney on October 19, Qantas Captain Sean Golding said that the flight was very successful from two components - the first one was research and the second one was feat of distance. 

After the successful test, the airline is also planning to test a nonstop flight from London to Sydney. The final decision on whether to start the routes will be taken by the end of the year. 

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