Qantas completes 'historic' 20-hour non-stop flight

Qantas has completed a 'historic' 19-hour non-stop test flight from New York to Sydney.

Alan Joyce, Qantas Group CEO with the flight deck crew and cabin crew at Sydney Airport

L’amministratore delegato della Qantas Alan Joyce era a bordo QF7879. Source: Getty

The longest non-stop passenger flight touched down in Australia Sunday morning after more than 19 hours in the air, a milestone journey from New York that Qantas hopes to parlay into commercial success.

Qantas flight QF7879 took 19 hours and 16 minutes to fly direct from New York to Sydney in the first of three "ultra long-haul" journeys planned by the airline this year.


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