Canada’s 7 Longest 1-Stop Flights Revealed

The world has some extraordinarily long one-stop scheduled passenger flights. In December 2025, for example, the new longest link began, which is China Eastern’s 29-hour jaunt from Buenos Aires back to Shanghai via Auckland. Canada’s entries are not quite that extreme, but they are nonetheless very notable.

To be included in this article, all the markets must involve same-plane, same-flight-number services. However, it does not matter whether traffic rights exist or not on the one-stop leg. It only matters that they’re available. This rule, while questionable, means various intriguing additions.

Canada’s Longest One-Stop Passenger Flights In 2026

The routes, shown below, are based on analyzing all carriers’ schedule submissions to OAG. It is for the full year 2026, with changes possible later in the year. As usual with such topics, the order is based on the maximum block time, which is measured as chocks-off-to-chocks-on. It is what is shown in a carrier’s booking engine, on other websites, in schedules, etc.

Timed at up to 23h 35m, Air Canada tops the table. It usually does. The longest one-stop link is from Toronto to Sydney via Vancouver. OAG shows that the country’s flag carrier has operated this very long route, which covers 8,552 nautical miles (15,838 km) each way, since 2007. AC33 has always been the flight number to Australia, and AC34 back. Some 96% of flights have been on the 300-seat Boeing 777-200LR, while the 777-300ER has been used in the past, too.

Biman Bangladesh To Toronto

Biman Bangladesh returned to Canada—and North America generally—in June 2022, with service to Toronto. The long route continues to see the 298-seat Boeing 787-9. Both directions operate via Istanbul Airport, although traffic rights do not exist. The stopover is simply to refuel and presumably change crew. Incidentally, Air Transat just began Toronto-Istanbul flights.

Needless to say, Biman serves Toronto because of the Bangladeshi diaspora and Bangladeshi Canadians. According to booking data for the 12 months to November 2025, about 83,000 people flew between Toronto and Dhaka. It was half the size of Bangladesh’s most-trafficked North American market, which was, of course, New York JFK. A problem with markets that revolve around visiting friends and relatives is that they’re the lowest of the low for fares and yields. That’s particularly problematic on long routes, which are expensive to operate.

Canada Has Nonstop Flights With Longer Block Times…

Notice that the table’s seventh and last entry is blocked at up to 16h 00m. Canada has various nonstop flights that are longer than that, which will be covered separately another time. This emphasizes the earlier point about Canada’s entries not being overly extreme.

Two nonstop routes are longer than 17h 00m. First, there’s Philippine Airlines from Toronto back to Manila, which is timed at up to 17h 10m and deploys the Airbus A350-900. Second, there’s Air Canada from Delhi back to Canada’s busiest airport, which is up to 17h 05m and uses the 777-200LR. Unlike Air India, Air Canada doesn’t have to avoid Pakistani airspace, but it does avoid flying through Russia.