Talk:Non-stop flight

message: Inaugurated on December 2, 2015.
16 hours 55 minutes.
http://airwaysnews.com/blog/2015/12/07/air-india-inaugurates-nonstop-service-between-san-francisco-and-delhi/
213.65.173.167 (talk) 11:15, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it's 7,706 miles long, while the 30th longest flight (we only list the top 30) is 7,793 mi long. Slasher-fun (talk) 16:39, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

text: the India flight is not unusual in using jet streams to trade distance with speed, all flights do it.  The table is based on the great circle distance between the two airports.  Any other measure would be subject to an impossible verifiability burden as actual flight distances for all flights vary on a daily and seasonal basis. Andrewgprout (talk) 18:16, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  The table is misleading us here.  The table measures the shortest distance between the two airports whereas this new route going east takes the longest route.  I think we need to accept the reference.  Air India really is the longest in distance but not the longest in time.  This needs to be sorted because both the B777 and the A350 are now capable of flying near to 180o apart and the shortest distance will not always be the route taken.  This needs reconsideration. Ex nihil (talk) 07:06, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Since there is no consistency on the actual distance flown from one day to the other, how would you sort flights then? Slasher-fun (talk) 08:00, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Just have to do the maths I guess,  that isn't very convenient but it would be more accurate and tells the true (and interesting) story. We could calculate it by adding two segments where the flight path passes through an intermediate destination or by subtracting the point-to-point distance from a great circle. It's quite a clever trick and as we are going to see more of this as aircraft ranges hit 180o our point-to-point distance tables won't always work any more. Trouble is, the page is actually called Non-stop flight, not Longest point to point I suppose we could rename the page I think people come here to find the longest flight, not how far apart airports are.  I do know somebody who decided to have a pint at his local pub by going the long way around the planet; that did not speed up his getting a drink however and when he finally arrived at the pub several weeks later, it was closed. Ex nihil (talk) 08:58, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why not in the list?: (Air India) Delhi - San Francisco 

message: If SA204 is operated only with 346 not 343 then why the table Non-stop flight#Currently scheduled (top 30, by distance) list 343 for the flight? (I recall reading something about it being seasonal but I don't have any sourceon my hand now) C933103 (talk) 09:45, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: because #Currently scheduled is outdated and WP:WINARS! BTW, thanks for your work on this article. --Marc Lacoste (talk) 09:49, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  I see. Btw, do you know had the SA 208 ever operated non stop by 343? Not sure why I put that down in the first place but that seems unlikely... C933103 (talk) 13:02, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not in archives and SA advertised an A346 with a Dakar stop in 2009. --Marc Lacoste (talk) 13:43, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  SA204 

message: There is a unreliable&incomprehensive source that seems to indicate the route were the longest route flown by A332, DC8, and such. Is there any further source for this? C933103 (talk) 17:32, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Which source? --Marc Lacoste (talk) 09:27, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Some random old forum postsC933103 (talk) 12:39, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  can you provide the link --Marc Lacoste (talk) 14:01, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Ugh sorry I forgot which post I saw that C933103 (talk) 13:02, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  FCO-EZE 

message: Was the flight done by 738 non-stop and were it scheduled? C933103 (talk) 13:17, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  ZNZ-PRG