Thanks, Kees, a new idea since I was ideally looking for a non-stop sector. It is ironic too that KLM/KNILM [a precursor of Skyteam???] were operating through to Australia while KLM does not today (and neither does Skyteam). Antoin ---- Original Message ----- From: "Kees de Lezenne Coulander" <listbox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 25 October 2005 20:28 Subject: Re: DC-3 longest sector? > Antoin Daltun <adaltun@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >Exactly what I am looking for: max miles/hours for a flight in airline > >service rather than years of service with an airline. > >Antoin > > In pre-WWII days, KLM flew the Amsterdam to Batavia (now Jakarta) route > with DC-3s. In Batavia, a connection was provided to a KNILM DC-3 for those > wishing to continue to Australia. > > The Amsterdam-Batavia route most likely qualifies as the longest > scheduled route by DC-3/C-47, although obviously with multiple stops. > At the time, it was probably also the longest scheduled flight of any kind > flown by the same aeroplane and by the same crew. During night stops, > passengers and crew were accomodated in hotels en-route. Imperial Airways > served the London to Australia route, but used flying boats for the > over-water sectors and landplanes for the over-land sectors. so in fact > every airplane and crws was just shuttling backwards and forwards over > its own allocated sector. > > Kees de Lezenne Coulander >