The world's 25 longest airline routes

The world's 25 longest airline routes

What are the longest airline routes in the world? It's a question I get frequently at Today in the Sky, so I reached out to the folks at OAG to help us update the list of world’s longest flights for 2016.

OAG, of course, is a top airline data provider, but they also specialize in airline schedules. To help us answer the question, OAG provided Today in the Sky with the world’s 25 longest regularly scheduled flights on the books as of March 1, 2016.

You can see the list in the above gallery, starting at the bottom – a tie for No. 24 between Newark-Mumbai and New York JFK-Taipei – and going the whole way through to No. 1: Dubai-Auckland.

If that No. 1 flight looks unfamiliar, it’s for good reason. It just launched Tuesday (March 1), bumping the previous title holder – Qantas’ Dallas/Fort Worth-Sydney flight – to No. 2.

Our latest list was compiled with flights operating as of the first week of March 2016. The list of "longest" flights is based on the mileage of the flights flown.

And more shake-ups on the list are coming. Emirates’ Panama City-Dubai route – scheduled to launch March 31 – will move up to No. 2. And this summer, United Airlines will start flying nonstop between San Francisco and Singapore. That 8,446-mile route also would jump into the top five based on current schedules. Qatar Airways has hinted that it might add new ultra-long-haul routes, but nothing firm has been revealed.

We’ll team up with OAG to update our list of world’s longest flights once those new flights begin. But, for now, you can click through the above gallery to see the world’s 25 longest flights as of early March 2016.

Enjoy!