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QANTAS is no stranger to breaking records, with the carrier flying the world’s longest pax flight by a commercial airline both for distance (17,800km) and for duration (19 hours, 19 minutes) in 2019.

But now the airline has notched up another milestone this week, this time breaking the time in the air for a repatriation flight when it carried Aussies from Buenos Aires to Darwin after 17 hours and 25 minutes.

The service was 522km further than its regular scheduled nonstop Perth to London flights which took off in Mar 2018.

Qantas’ feat will be added to the shelf alongside one of the longest delivery flights in 1989, when a Qantas 747 flew nonstop from London to Sydney in a whopping 20 hours and nine minutes.