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What is Long Haul?
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Hi there, me and my partner are looking at booking our holidays we were wondering if anyone would be able to tell us how long a flight has to be before it is classed as long haul??
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.There's no real answer to that one. In most European major airlines, anywhere within about 4 hours would be flown by the shorthaul fleets on shorthaul aircraft. The longhaul fleets would, generally, not fly any sector below about 5 hours (unless it is what is called a "shuttle" at a long haul destination - we used to fly, for example, Sao Paulo to Rio De Janeiro and back in a day as a shuttle in the middle of the London to Sao Paulo trip). I reckon just about anything inside Europe and to the west of the Urals as shorthaul.