flight duration
Airborne journey length
Flight duration is the length of time an aircraft spends in the air, measured from takeoff to landing.
Airlines publish flight durations for scheduling purposes, though actual times vary with weather and routing: The flight duration from New York to London is about seven hours.
Duration may also apply to spacecraft missions or bird migrations.
- arrivalAct of reaching destination
- estimated arrivalForecasted time of reaching
- turbulenceChaotic flow patterns
- airspeedAircraft's atmospheric velocity
- fuel efficiencyOutput per unit burned
landing · time zones · nonstop · long haul · red eye · hour · descent · climb rate · weather monitoring · jet stream · helium · envelope · departure · gondola · thermal currents · migratory patterns · boarding · takeoff
- Long-distance flightnonstop flights, transoceanic, circumnavigation, fuel capacity, range extension
- flightsdeparture, arrival, boarding, nonstop, one-way trip
- flight dataaltitude, logbook, airspeed, manifest, route
- Early BallooningMontgolfier brothers, hot air balloon, hydrogen balloon, wicker basket, first ascent
temporal scope
flight durationlayover
Break between connecting flights
stopover · connection time · wait time · turnaround time · layover time