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Uploaded by on Jan 12, 2009

Continental Flight 99 - Newark to Hong Kong (non-stop) - December 11th, 2008

One of Continental's longest flights... between 15-16 hours average. This trip was around 14.5 hours with a nice push from tailwinds over the north Atlantic. Took a more southerly polar route than normal to benefit from those winds aloft. The sun sets, rises, and sets again during the flight. You leave EWR around 3:00PM ET, and arrive the next day around 7:30-8:00PM Hong Kong time. Very comfortable flight, service was great.

Seat 27A (Economy) views from over the left wing in-flight and of the moving map display. Enjoy!

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  • wouldnt it save time if CO took the northern route?

  • @hdsfs Again, as stated before (someone else asked something along the lines of this earlier), they used a northern route on this leg, a southern route would only be used if there was a favorable tailwind, otherwise you're going to route as close as possible along a great-circle track to get there (shortest distance on a flat map).

  • Why did the pilot take a northern route? Grr.

  • Great circle route (draw a straight line on a flight map from EWR to VHHH and then place it on a sphere). Shortest distance is over the top of the world... not to mention the wind aloft is taken into account... usually they go further north than this flight, however the tailwind was better a bit further south, shaves time off the flight and saves the company gas.

  • cool AJ. What kind of plane? And why did you go to China?

  • My Dad works and lives there.

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  • it looks like it is flying over atlantic, europe, middle east and asia but in fact it is flying almost over the north pole

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  • @doubl609 This route is now operated by United Airlines after the merger with Continental Airlines and CX is going to do HKG-EWR-HKG to compete with United Airlines on this route

  • Why don't they fly over the pacific?

  • videos like this remind me why i love flying SO DAMN MUCH!!

  • The longest flight at the moment is Singapore Airlines from Newark to Singapore City 18.50 on an Airbus 340-500

  • @sabu85 well i live in australia and if i wanna go anywere like america or europe the flight is over 24 hours+ :(

  • @iloveamericans1 AMEN TO THAT!!

  • I love flying,best mode of transport

  • you should have taken cathay pacific

  • its kinda cool because u travel the whole globe in 17 Hrs

  • @bookieboy

    17.5 hours! omg! i often travel between europe and japan and for me 12 hours are already too much! lol

    i like short flights up to 4 hours...

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