{"id":429945,"date":"2026-05-17T06:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/6000-mile-flights-united-new-longest-787-8-route\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:08:26","slug":"6000-mile-flights-united-airlines-new-longest-nonstop-boeing-787-8-route-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=429945","title":{"rendered":"6,000-Mile Flights: United Airlines&#8217; New Longest Nonstop Boeing 787-8 Route [Map]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-announces-1st-ever-flights-sapporo-new-route-chicago-tokyo\/\" >Earlier this week<\/a>, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> announced two new routes would be joining its network, one of which is the resumption of service from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"263837\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/chicago-ohare-international-airport\/\"  >Chicago O&#8217;Hare International Airport<\/a><\/span> (ORD) to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259815\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/tokyo-narita\/\"  >Tokyo Narita Airport<\/a><\/span> (NRT). The airline last served the route up until 2020, when it utilized the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739390\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/777-200er\/\"  >Boeing 777-200ER<\/a><\/span>. This time, it will be operated by the airline&#8217;s <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256569\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing-787-8\/\"  >787-8<\/a><\/span>, and becomes the longest city pair with the aircraft variant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines unveils its longest-ever Boeing 787-8 route, spanning 6,274 miles between Chicago and Tokyo&#8217;s Narita Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,2114,15477,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-787-8","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430154,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429945\/revisions\/430154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}