Advertiser & Editorial Disclosure: The Bulkhead Seat earns an affiliate commission for anyone approved through the links below. This compensation may impact how and where links appear on this site. We work to provide the best publicly available offers to our readers. We frequently update them, but this site does not include all available offers. Opinions, reviews, analyses & recommendations are the author’s alone, and have not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by any of these entities.
I’ve taken some long flights from the United States to Singapore Changi Airport (SIN), Hong Kong International Airport (HKG), Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD), and others. Those seem like short hops compared to the flight that China Eastern Airlines is launching in December. It will offer nonstop flights that measure more than 12,229 miles and last a whopping 29 hours on the return. This new route will take passengers between Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) and Buenos Aires’ Ministro Pistarini International Airport (EZE).
The flight will make a stop at Auckland Airport (AKL), but passengers traveling onward to Buenos Aires need to stay on the aircraft the entire time. This direct flight is going to be the longest available, but it’s not the longest direct or nonstop flight, currently. Those awards go to China Airlines for its direct flight between Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) and São Paulo/Guarulhos-Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU) (9,494 miles with a stopover in Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport (MAD) in Spain) and Singapore Airlines with its nonstop flight between New York John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and Singapore Changi Airport (SIN). That route clocks in at 9,537 miles and takes around 19 hours.
China Eastern Airlines new flight will run 2x weekly on Mondays and Thursdays outbound and back on Tuesdays and Fridays. The route will be flown with Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. These offer six First Class, 52 Business Class, and 258 Economy Class seats. The other cool part of this route is that passengers can purchase tickets between Auckland Airport (AKL) and Buenos Aires’ Ministro Pistarini International Airport (EZE) as a fifth freedom flight (this means a flight between two foreign countries that are not an airline’s home country).
Anthony’s Take: I can’t imagine taking this flight in a premium cabin, let alone in Economy. This is a grueling trek and one that sounds exhausting.
(Image Credits: China Eastern Airlines.)
User Generated Content Disclosure: The Bulkhead Seat encourages constructive discussions, comments, and questions. Responses are not provided by or commissioned by any bank advertisers. These responses have not been reviewed, approved, or endorsed by the bank advertiser. It is not the responsibility of the bank advertiser to respond to comments.
Advertiser & Editorial Disclosure: The Bulkhead Seat earns an affiliate commission for anyone approved through the links above This compensation may impact how and where links appear on this site. We work to provide the best publicly available offers to our readers. We frequently update them, but this site does not include all available offers. Opinions, reviews, analyses & recommendations are the author’s alone, and have not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by any of these entities.
