Nonstop Flight From Australia to France Sets World Record

Twenty-four hours. No stops.

Guinness World Records has recognized an Airbus A350-1000ULR for the longest flight ever flown by a commercial aircraft. It left Melbourne at 5:27 p.m. local time on Monday, July 27. It landed in Toulouse, France, at 9:51 a.m. local time the next day. That’s 24 hours and 24 minutes in the air, over 12,503 nautical miles. In everyday terms, about 14,388 miles, or 23,155 kilometers.

This Was A Test Flight

Don’t go looking for tickets. This was a test flight. Airbus ran it for Qantas, which wants the plane for something called Project Sunrise. Thirteen people were on board, and nobody paid to be there.