Some people prefer to travel with stopovers or stopovers - making stops midway to briefly explore an extra destination - while others abhor the idea of a flight that is not direct.
However, for these direct flights, you need breath - and more than a few in-flight hobbies - because they spend more than 17 hours in the air.
From time to time, airlines try to beat each other's records and make even longer trips, resulting in one-off flights outside their regular routes that have flown almost an entire day, such as the stretch from Hong Kong to London (over 5 . . .
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