Qatar Airways makes longest scheduled flight

doha - From Doha (Qatar) is a plane left Sunday morning for a nonstop flight to Auckland in New Zealand. The airliner over 14,500 kilometers is the longest ever, Flightradar24 reports.

The outward journey of the Boeing 777-200LR Qatar Airways takes 16 hours and 20 minutes. The trip takes an hour and ten minutes longer, because of the wind.

The record for the longest non-stop scheduled flight was until now the name of Emirates. Flying from Dubai to Auckland. The flight is about 300 kilometers shorter.