TAP puts A321-LR on Lisbon-Manaus. It's a new record: nearly 12 hours aboard a narrow-body aircraft.
This is not the longest non-stop flight, among those operated with a narrow-body aircraft, and particularly [...]
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This is not the longest non-stop flight, among those operated with a narrow-body aircraft, and particularly with the Airbus A321-LR. For example, the Milan Malpensa-New York Newark operated by La Compagnie is a longer non-stop, as in the American direction it takes about 9 hours to connect the two airports.
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However, the one initiated (or it would be better to say restarted) on Monday, November 4 by TAP Air Portugal between Lisbon and Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, is the longest connection in the world made by a narrow-body aircraft, because you stay on board for almost 12 hours in total.
Overall because, due to issues of flight autonomy the A321-LR must along the way make a stopover and refuel at Belem, an operation that takes about an hour, and then resume the flight to Manaus.
The Portuguese airline had connected Lisbon with the 'capital of the Amazon' between 2016 and 2018, but then did so nonstop and with a wide-body Airbus A330-200.
Of course, even TAP's A321-LR has a business class cabin with lie-flat seats (16 in all with an alternating 2-2, 1-1, 2-2, 1-1, 2-2 layout) that can convert into beds. But the cabin size is still that of an A321 and some may feel claustrophobic with so many hours to spend on board.
Even more so when traveling in the back, in Economy, where the layout is the usual 3-3, although the first seven rows, called Economy Xtra, offer more legroom (33 inches instead of 31 and the seat reclining 7 inches instead of 5).
The flight operates three times a week departing Lisbon at 10:35 am and arriving in Belem at 3:50 pm; departing again at 4:50 pm and landing in Manaus at 6:20 pm. In the opposite direction, takeoff from manausis at 7:50 p.m., with a stopover in Belem from 11:20 p.m. to 00:20 a.m. the next day and arrival in Lisbon at 11:10 a.m.
