The Boeing 787-8 is the smallest aircraft in the Dreamliner family, but it is still often assigned to the kinds of missions that feel more like they should be operated by a Boeing 777. We use maximum block time (the amount of time it takes for the aircraft to go from gate to gate) in order to craft a list of the ten longest Boeing 787-8 sectors operated from the United States . The data for this analysis was provided to Simple Flying by aviation industry data firm Cirium Aviation Analytics .

Block time is the right metric here as it captures the real-world friction that readers may actually feel, which accounts for taxi time, seasonal headwinds, ATC flow programs, and aircraft reroutings. Therefore, we incorporate more than just the great-circle distance in our analysis. Since this

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