The capital of Qatar, and new Zealand Auckland tied the longest air route in the world. On Sunday, February 5, the newspaper reports Gulf News.
Passenger plane Boeing 777-200LR Qatar Airways, designed for long flights, left Doha about five in the morning on Sunday. The plane passed the Dubai and Northern Oman, and then headed towards India, flew over the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka and reached Western Australia.
It is expected that he will arrive in New Zealand after 16 hours and 20 minutes after departure and will sit in Auckland airport around 7:30 on Monday. The way back will take even more time and will last 17 hours and 30 minutes
The length of the route, crossing ten time zones, is 14.5 thousand kilometers. It’s 600 miles more than the flight Dubai — Auckland Emirates airlines, which was believed to be the longest previously.
New Zealand authorities expect that the new flight will bring the economy $ 198 million per year.
In 2013, it was reported that Singapore Airlines cancelled the route from Singapore to the us state of new Jersey. Its length was 16.7 thousand kilometers.
