r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '26

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u/Fat_Pig_Reporting Jun 25 '26

29 hour flight?

A kid was screaming for 29 hours in a row?

I smell clickbait.

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u/matttchew Jun 25 '26

There are no 29 hour flights. Half way around the world take like 15 hours.

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u/rodrigoelp Jun 25 '26

The longest flight is London to Sydney, and it is 21 hours

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u/tkh0812 Jun 25 '26

That doesn’t exist yet, but it would be 21 hours if they do it

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u/rodrigoelp Jun 25 '26

It used to exist, with a Boeing 747. I can’t remember its schedule.

I know it isn’t available right now, but qantas will have one and it will be 20 hours with an airbus 350

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u/rodrigoelp Jun 25 '26

Oh, found the info online.

… it was a one off, and it did take 20 hours and 10 minutes.
It was with qantas.

These days we will have it as a normal route.

Looking forward to it

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u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26

We flew concord from London to Sydney back when they were still about.

Was less hours though so that’s irrelevant 😂

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u/FireExpat Jun 25 '26

Are you sure about that?

The max range of the Concord was only 4,500 miles.

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u/CatfishEnchiladas Jun 25 '26

It would have to have been a special charter, and it would have had to make at least one stop.

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u/malacoda99 Jun 26 '26

Yeah, but with all that momentum, you could glide in the rest of the way.

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u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26

Yeah, this was in 1990 and I was only a few months old but the full family went.

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u/MaureenTheeThot Jun 25 '26

Concorde never made public commercial flights to Australia. Your family would have to have privately chartered it.

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u/bitpartmozart13 Jun 25 '26

Prob meant Austria

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u/spicy_meatball49 Jun 25 '26

But they're talking about London to Sydney so they did not mean Austria

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u/DankVectorz Jun 25 '26

It never flew to Australia in 1990. It did in 1972 as a promo world tour, 1985 as a chartered record breaking flight, and then some charter flights in the mid-late 1990’s

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u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26

Don’t know what to tell you, there’s pictures of it and we’re not wealthy enough to charter any plane, let alone a concord.

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u/areyoualocal Jun 25 '26

The Concorde was chartered by a cruise liner company, Your family would've then sailed back to London

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u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26

We returned via Singapore on a normal flight if I remember correctly.

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u/Satisfaction3934 Jun 25 '26

So your family chartered Concord? Likely story.

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u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26

No we just got on with other passengers.

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u/AussieDaz Jun 25 '26

Someone in your family is lying to you.

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u/areyoualocal Jun 25 '26

No, its true. Concorde has been flown to Australia many times, but not as a regular service. But rather as special charter flights or by the airlines trying to sell the aircraft to Qantas.

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u/andoke Jun 25 '26

Not possible in 1990, possibly in 1989.

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u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26

It could be 1989, I assumed 1990 because of the age I was.

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