- Global aircraft charter specialist Air Charter Service (ACS) has set new company records for the longest charter flights in its history—twice in just six days. The first flight, from Dallas Fort Worth to Sydney aboard an Airbus A380, spanned 8,578 miles (13,804 km).
- Just days later, ACS surpassed its own milestone with a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner flight from Perth to Los Angeles, covering 9,318 miles (14,997 km) in nearly 17 hours—making it one of the top three longest non-stop commercial flight routes in the world.
Last month, leading aircraft charter specialist, Air Charter Service, broke its record for the longest flight in the company’s history, then six days later, broke it again.
Matthew Purton, Group Aviation Services Director, commented: “We arranged two charters for the same client, in the space of a week, that both broke our longest ever flight record. The first was from Dallas Fort Worth to Sydney on an Airbus A380, taking off late Monday night Texas local time, and arriving late morning on Wednesday, Australian time, covering 8,578 miles (13,804 km). Incredibly the aircraft crossed the International Date Line three times – due to the ‘kink’ in the boundary near Kiribati. This only just beat our previous record of 8,448 miles (13,596 km) on an A350-900 from Doha, Qatar to Monterrey, Mexico in 2021.
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“After less than two hours in Sydney the same passengers travelled on to Perth on the aircraft. The following week we bettered that new record when an ACS-chartered B-787-9 Dreamliner flew them directly from Perth to Los Angeles, on a flight that lasted almost 17 hours, and covered 9,318 miles (14,997km), close to two fifths of the world’s circumference. The aircraft took off from Perth at 2:30am local Australian time and landed at 4:10am local Californian time on the same day.
“The distance of the charter would place it in the top three longest scheduled service routes that are currently operating, only beaten by two Singapore Airlines routes, Newark and JFK to Singapore.”
