Non-stop flight

A Non-stop flight in the aviation industry refers to any flight which does not involve any intermediate stops. Many laymen mistakenly assume that the term direct flight shares the same meaning as a non-stop flight.

Some of the world's longest non-stop scheduled commercial flights involve transpacific journeys either via the great circle route or the Polar route:

	Distance (Mi)	Time	Aircraft	First flight	Type
Newark to Singapore and VV.	Singapore Airlines	8,506	18:40	Airbus A340-500	29 June 2004	Scheduled passenger
Los Angeles to Singapore and VV.	Singapore Airlines	7,971	16:15-17:25	Airbus A340-500	5 February 2004	Scheduled passenger
New York(JFK) to Hong Kong and VV.	Cathay Pacific	8,055	15:35-16:20	Airbus A340-600	6 July 1998	Scheduled passenger

On 11 November 2005, Boeing successfully flew a Boeing 777-200LR from Hong Kong to London via the Pacific Ocean, over a distance of 21,601 Kilometres and a flight time of 22 hours 42 minutes. It broke the previous record of the longest non-stop flight by a jet aircraft [1], once held by a Boeing B-52 bomber flight from Kadena, Okinawa, to an Air Force base at Madrid, Spain for a distance of 20,168 Kilometres.

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