A non-stop flight, especially in the aviation industry, refers to any flight by an aircraft which does not involve any intermediate stops. A "direct flight" is not the same as a "non-stop flight". To qualify for this article, an ultra long-haul non-stop flight should be a flight by a commercially operated airliner with:
- No scheduled intermediate stop of any kind
- Above about 7,500 miles (12,100 km) in route length
These flights usually follow a great circle route, often passing over polar regions. As of January 2012 the two longest nonstop scheduled airline flights are between Singapore and North America.
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Famous quotes containing the words non-stop and/or flight:
“Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.”
—Gerald Brenan (1894–1987)
“No Raven’s wing can stretch the flight so far
As the torn bandrols of Napoleon’s war.
Choose then your climate, fix your best abode,
He’ll make you deserts and he’ll bring you blood.
How could you fear a dearth? have not mankind,
Tho slain by millions, millions left behind?
Has not conscription still the power to weild
Her annual faulchion o’er the human field?
A faithful harvester!”
—Joel Barlow (1754–1812)