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Flight from Auckland lands 16 hours later in … Auckland
The non-stop flight from Auckland, New Zealand to New York’s JFK airport takes 16 hours and 15 minutes to fly a little over 14,000 kilometers, one of the longest regular commercial services in the world. It surely is a gruesomely long flight but it brings you to the destination without the hassles of connections. But what if the destination airport became unfunctional to receive the flight? That was what happened to Air New Zealand flight #2 which was en route to JFK on February 16 when terminal 1 of the busy airport was closed due to an electrical outage. While most other flights to JFK were diverted to nearby airports in New Jersey, Washington DC, or Boston, Air New Zealand decided to have the flight return to Auckland from almost halfway to JFK because of schedule efficiency and logistics. So, after 16 hours flight, the passengers on board all landed at the airport where they departed 16 hours ago. If the airport problem had been found after the point of no return, the flight would have had to be diverted to one of the airports in the US, which would have allowed the passengers to get connecting flights to the destination. How unfortunate the passengers were!
Enjoy reading the article about the longest commercial flight that departed and landed at the same airport.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/air-new-zealand-flight-diverted-jfk/index.html
Flight from Auckland lands 16 hours later in … Auckland
The non-stop flight from Auckland, New Zealand to New York’s JFK airport takes 16 hours and 15 minutes to fly a little over 14,000 kilometers, one of the longest regular commercial services in the world. It surely is a gruesomely long flight but it brings you to the destination without the hassles of connections. But what if the destination airport became unfunctional to receive the flight? That was what happened to Air New Zealand flight #2 which was en route to JFK on February 16 when terminal 1 of the busy airport was closed due to an electrical outage. While most other flights to JFK were diverted to nearby airports in New Jersey, Washington DC, or Boston, Air New Zealand decided to have the flight return to Auckland from almost halfway to JFK because of schedule efficiency and logistics. So, after 16 hours flight, the passengers on board all landed at the airport where they departed 16 hours ago. If the airport problem had been found after the point of no return, the flight would have had to be diverted to one of the airports in the US, which would have allowed the passengers to get connecting flights to the destination. How unfortunate the passengers were!
Enjoy reading the article about the longest commercial flight that departed and landed at the same airport.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/air-new-zealand-flight-diverted-jfk/index.html
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