Simple Flying has obtained data via Cirium that shows a number of flights regularly taking off from 
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport have an astounding length. A total of 7,210 flights, covering over 5,000 miles, will depart the airport, resulting in more than two million seats and 13 billion available seat miles for 2025. The average length will be 6,676 miles.
In this article, we give a full breakdown of what the data reveals, including the dominance of Qantas and 
American Airlines for long-haul flying from Dallas/Fort Worth.
What Does The Data Reveal?
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The Cirium data reveals that there are 35 routes from Dallas that are over 5,000 miles long. Twenty-two unique international destinations are present, and 11 airlines are represented. Most of these are flag carriers, including Qantas and Qatar Airways. The outlier is the Taiwanese carrier EVA Air. The route on the list with the most flights is Qatar Airways’ 777-300ER service to Doha, with the most seats at almost 190,000.
The table below details the top ten longest flights departing Dallas/Fort Worth. In some of these services, an airline uses more than one aircraft to fly the route:
Airline
Origin
Destination
Aircraft
Flights
Seats
ASMs
Avg Miles
Qantas
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW)
Melbourne (MEL)
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
209
49,324
442,584,252
8,973 (14,441.36 km)
Qantas
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW)
Sydney (SYD)
Airbus A380-800
81
39,285
336,633,165
8,569 (13,790.59 km)
Qantas
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW)
Sydney (SYD)
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
281
66,316
568,261,804
8,581 (13,810.93 km)
American Airlines
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW)
Brisbane (BNE)
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
144
38,621
320,515,679
8,119 (13,067.02 km)
Cathay Pacific
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW)
Hong Kong (HKG)
Boeing 777-300ER
174
58,116
471,901,920
8,122 (13,071.85 km)
Emirates
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW)
Dubai (DXB)
Boeing 777-300ER
366
120,327
1,017,642,508
8,456 (13,610.94 km)
Qatar Airways
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW)
Doha (DOH)
Boeing 777-300ER
576
188,352
1,493,631,360
7,930 (12,764.01 km)
Qatar Airways
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW)
Doha (DOH)
Boeing 777-200LR
158
42,432
339,447,936
7,999 (12,875.73 km)
EVA Air
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW)
Taipei Taoyuan (TPE)
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
58
16,352
124,428,090
7,611 (12,248.97 km)
American Airlines
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW)
Auckland (AKL)
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
138
39,330
292,575,870
7,437 (11,965.84 km)
The data is also a who’s who of widebody aircraft from both Boeing and Airbus. The Boeing 787-9, 787-8, 777-200ER, 777-300ER, 777-200LR, Airbus A380, Airbus A330-200, and A340-300 are all in the complete dataset. Yet, the 747 is a notable absentee, showing that the Queen of the Skies is certainly fading into obscurity. The majority of the routes are over the Pacific to Australasia or Asia. This includes destinations in Australia and Japan. Meanwhile, a strong number of routes are across the Atlantic to Europe. Examples include routes to Italy and Germany. For example, Lufthansa offers 211 flights to Frankfurt in 2025, competing with 332 American Airlines flights carrying out the same non-stop route.
Qantas Dominates The Longest Flights
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Firmly positioned at the top of the data are Qantas’ three flights from Dallas to Australia: Melbourne and Sydney (with two equipment types). Across the year, the carrier will fly 715 of these flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Australia, for almost 200,000 seats and 1.7 billion available seat miles. That is astonishingly high considering that these totals don’t include the similar return legs. The average distance traveled for each of the four routes will be 8,560 miles.
The carrier flies to each destination using its Boeing 787-9 fleet and to Sydney also using the Airbus A380-800. The airline currently has 10 A380-800s and 14 787-9s (with a further four on order) in its fleet. Nine of the A380s are currently in service, and the final A380 is expected to be reactivated by the end of 2025.
Although the fate of these services is unclear, there are indications that the prevalence of Qantas A380s flying out of Dallas may decline over the next decade. Simple Flying recently reported on Qantas’ plans to introduce the A350-1000 to some of its most iconic routes, including Singapore and Los Angeles. The carrier currently has 12 A350s on order, along with four 787-9s and eight 787-10s. We can expect that, as the A380-800s age, these jets will gradually be phased into Qantas’ operations from Dallas.
American Airlines Shows Legacy US Carriers Still Dominate Internationally
As with most things, Dallas/Fort Worth, American dominates these long-haul routes among US carriers. The legacy carrier represents 23 of them, including the fourth-longest route to Brisbane. The airline will carry out this route 144 times in 2025, offering customers over 38,000 seats and 320.5 million available seat miles. This route has an average length of 8,299 miles.
Dallas has become a fortress for American, with the US-based carrier claiming 82% of the airport’s traffic. It offers 930 daily flights out of Dallas to 230 destinations in 30 countries. It has become synonymous with Dallas/Fort Worth because the airport evolved into a global hub, serving as American Airlines’ primary base. Meanwhile, the Wright Amendment of 1979 limited the number of flights from Dallas Love Field, preventing Southwest Airlines and other carriers from utilizing Love Field to offer full competition in interstate flights. This legislation was deeply controversial, with Herb Kelleher, Southwest’s founder, once telling a judge at a hearing on the Wright Amendment, “If a three-aircraft airline can bankrupt an 18,000-acre, 9-mile-long airport, then that airport probably should not have been built in the first place.”
American’s operations from Dallas are set to continue expanding. The airport has planned a new Terminal F that comes with a $4 billion price tag.
“DFW is American’s largest and most critical hub, and with this expanded plan for Terminal F, DFW has a clear path to become the largest airline hub in the world. Dallas/Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing regions in the country, and we’re excited that American and North Texas will continue to grow together,” American’s CEO Robert Isom remarked.
Dallas To Melbourne: Fort Worth’s Longest Route
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The longest route on this list is from Dallas to Melbourne, with a mind-boggling nonstop distance of 8,973 miles. In 2025, the route will be completed 209 times, for a total of almost 50,000 seats and over 400 million available seat miles. Simple Flying reported on the route’s launch back in 2022, an event that was marked by “a sea of cowboy hats, and red, white, and blue bunting” and a cowboy.
“Dallas is a natural gateway as it’s a major hub for our biggest partner in America, American Airlines, where we can connect to more than 200 destinations across the US, and it’s a great gateway to the Caribbean and Latin America,” Qantas Executive Manager Australian Sales, Stephen Thompson, said when the route was launched.
The bravest souls, including Kalamazoo Aviation, whose trip report is embedded below, complete this behemoth in economy. That is almost 17 hours with all the trappings of non-premium aviation.
Dallas to Melbourne isn’t the only significant flight from a US airport executed by Qantas. The Australian airline also flies to Sydney, which is now the world’s second-longest nonstop Airbus A380 route. This route has returned after a hiatus following services from September 2014 to April 2020, replacing the 747-400. The second-longest credential is earned based on both distance and time, with the route covering 7,474 nautical miles (13,805 km) each way. The block time is 17 hours and 15 minutes. It is only surpassed by Emirates’ journey from Dubai to Auckland by three percent in journey length and 10 minutes in maximum block time.
Dallas To São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport
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Meanwhile, the shortest route operated out of Dallas in the Cirium dataset extracted for this article is the 5,111-mile trip to São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, operated by American Airlines. The route is operated by a 777-300ER, known for flying from American’s US hubs to London, São Paulo, and Sydney.
This aircraft gives passengers an impressive selection of seats to choose from, utilizing five different classes. These are Flagship First, Flagship Business, Premium Economy, Main Cabin Extra, and Main Cabin. The table below gives all the data for what American Airlines offers for each of these products and has been compiled from Seat Guru data:
Class
Pitch/Bed Length
Width
Seats available
Flagship First
64 inches (162 cm) /
78 inches (198 cm)
21.5 inches (54 cm)
8 flat bed seats
Flagship Business
43 inches (109 cm)/
75 inches (190 cm)
20.5 inches (52 cm)
52 flat bed seats
Premium Economy
38 inches (96 cm)
18.5 inches (47 cm)
28 recliner seats
Main Cabin Extra
36 inches (91 cm)
17.1 inches (43 cm) – 18.1 inches (46 cm)
28 standard seats
Main Cabin
31 inches (78 cm) -32 inches (81 cm)
16.2 inches (41 cm) – 17.1 inches (43 cm)
188 standard seats
This spring, an American flight to São Paulo using 777s made headlines for all the wrong reasons, although the flight in question was from Brazil to 
New York-JFK Airport. A widely shared social media video showed a woman in a confrontation with the flight crew, supposedly upset by the aircraft’s delayed departure. She was seen attempting to enter the cockpit before being restrained and returned to her seat by force.
- IATA Code
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DFW
- City
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Dallas-Fort Worth
- State/Province/Region
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Texas