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My Lifetime Of Ultra-Long-Haul Travel- and what’s next?

What’s your longest flight ever, in hours and distance? It always bemuses me when colleagues complain about a “long haul” six-hour flight. With close to half of my flights originating out of Australia, six hours is only getting started! Out of the 1730 flights in my life, I have now racked up 203 “long haul” (over 8 hours) flights, of which 72 were over 12 hours long as seen below: My longest flight was an epic 18 hours and 8 minutes earlier this year, on the world’s longest scheduled commercial flight: Singapore Airlines’ nonstop flight…

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