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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hashan dis" data-source="post: 20832234" data-attributes="member: 124785">Air India Sets New Record for World's Longest Nonstop Flight:  Flying Delhi to San Francisco (SFO) over the Pacific Ocean instead of  the Atlantic, as it had done till last week, has earned Air India the  record of operating the world's longest nonstop flight. The  Pacific route is almost 1,400km longer than the Atlantic one, and the  flight covered 15,300 kilometres in 14.5 hours. Despite the route being  longer, the flight took almost two hours less thanks to tailwinds -  winds that blow in the same direction as an aircraft and thus make it go faster.  The four pilots, captains Rajneesh Sharma, Gautam Verma, MA Khan and SM  Palekar, and the 10 cabin crew members who operated the first Delhi-SFO  flight over the Pacific are ecstatic at setting this record.  "The aircraft took off from Delhi at 4am on Sunday (October 16) morning.  We were in that date till Japan. After that, we crossed the  international date line and were in October 15. By the time we landed in  San Francisco, it was 6.30am on October 16 (local time in SFO)," said  one of the pilots. The Boeing-777 200 long range used by AI on  this route, on an average, burns 9,600 litres of fuel for each hour of  flying. A shorter flying time on the Delhi-SFO route -- from an hour in  summer to three hours (in winter) -- would mean huge fuel savings for  the airline. World's longest non-stop air routes: 1)    Delhi-SanFrancisco (Air India)    -    15,100km 2)    Dubai-Auckland (Emirates)         -    14,203km 3)    Sydney-Dallas (Qantas)              -    13,804km 4)    Singapore-San Francisco (United & Singapore Airlines) -    13,593km 5)    Atlanta-Johannesburg (Delta)     -    13,582km</blockquote>

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