The new Emirates flight, which opens on March 31, supposed to be 17 hours and 35 minutes on an airplane. This is what a Boeing 777-200LR take 266 seats to travel 13,821 km.
The direct flight linking Panama to Dubai from next March 31 will increase tourism and business opportunities between Latin America and Asia to avoid transit visas in the United States or the European Union. Indeed, no longer necessary transit visas in the European Schengen area and across the United States or Canada, compared to other current paths with scale between American and Asian destinations. However, the record for Emirates on this route could be short-lived. The airline Qatar Airways is finalizing a new route to link-capital Doha of Qatar to Auckland in New Zealand, to 14,529 kilometers away. In that case the direct flight lasted 18 hours and 34 minutes.
17 hours and 35 minutes inside an airplane; offer is not for the claustrophobic. It is what will the Panama-Dubai flight, which will be the longest direct flight in the world. Emirates airline launches this route next month March. This daily flight will travel 13,821 kilometers in 17 hours and 35 minutes, which will overtake the route between Sydney (Australia) and Dallas (USA). The dubaità airline will operate this flight with a Boeing 777-200LR aircraft with 266 seats available and a load capacity of 15 tons.
