Regretful, he wrote that the nine-hour flight was "the longest nine hours I spent in my life."

He arrived in Miami after a nine-hour flight on Sunday.

A few weeks - and a nine-hour flight from Amsterdam - later, I touched down in Paramaribo, Suriname's capital.

Kind of straight-looking, in khakis and a polo shirt, but you can't really judge people by how they dress for a nine-hour flight.

She was not charged for her extra baggage, and got an aisle seat to London and three seats across for the nine-hour flight on to Kenya.

Heavens, Leith, it's only a nine-hour flight away!

The crew was able to remain on board and, after a nine-hour flight, the plane landed back at Waddington.

"With their gifts of intelligence and heart, they represent the future," the pope said in brief remarks after his nine-hour flight from Rome.

The Prince shook off jet lag after a nine-hour flight from Brazil after an official visit there.

The first 707 of SAA landed in Europe in October 1961 with a nine-hour flight to Athens.