Nearly 17 Hours: The Longest Flights From The US's 10th Busiest Airport

In 2024, Miami welcomed 55.9 million passengers, which meant it was the US’s tenth-busiest airport. This was its best year to date. Traffic rose by 7% compared to the prior high held in 2023, and by 22% compared to before the pandemic in 2019. Ten million passengers were added in five years.

For obvious reasons, Miami is the US’s leading gateway to South America. However, when all long-haul passenger flights are considered, OAG data indicates that it is the country’s eighth-busiest facility. It is the US’s ninth-busiest widebody airport, although it is not a fortress hub for American Airlines.

Miami’s 10 Longest Nonstop Passenger Flights In Winter 2024/2025

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Based on IATA slot seasons, northern carriers will switch to winter schedules on October 26. They’ll maintain them until March 28. In this period, Miami’s ten longest scheduled passenger links are shown below. Needless to say, at up to 8h 40m, Icelandair’s brand-new Keflavik service is not among them.

The ten markets have maximum block times (chocks-off-to-chocks-on) of between 10h 55m and 16h 35m. As usual, other city pairs nearly but not quite made the list. Several are timed at up to 10h 50m, including SAS from Stockholm and SWISS from Zurich.

Emirates Operates Miami’s Longest Passenger Service

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At up to 16h 35m, Emirates has Miami’s longest service. The very long market, which covers 6,817 nautical miles (12,625 km) each way on a great circle basis, has existed since 2021. It replaced Dubai-Fort Lauderdale, which operated between 2016 and 2020 due to Emirates’ JetBlue partnership.

Unsurprisingly, Fort Lauderdale service did poorly. According to US Department of Transportation data, only 74% of seats were filled. However, the same source shows that Emirates has only filled 65% of Miami seats. No month has had more than 81%. It was partly for this reason—and its 777-300ERs remaining in Florida all day—that the route was extended to Bogotá in 2024.

In the 12 months to July 2025, the US DOT shows Emirates carried 170,000 passengers to/from Dubai (excluding the Colombian add-on). Booking data shows that approximately two-thirds of passengers connected to another flight in Dubai. Manila was the most popular market, partly due to Miami’s big cruise industry. Mumbai was second, followed by Denpasar/Bali, Hyderabad, Dhaka, Delhi, Bangkok, Jakarta, Bengaluru, and Singapore.

Turkish Airlines Has The Highest Frequency

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At a high of 13h 00m this winter, Istanbul to Miami is the fourth-longest link. Turkish Airlines has 11 weekly flights. TK157 leaves Istanbul at 02:10 and arrives at 07:00 local time (four weekly 787-9). TK77 departs from Türkiye at 15:35 and gets to Florida at 20:35 local time (daily 777-300ER). Back to Istanbul, TK158 departs from Miami at 10:20 and arrives home at 05:45+1. TK78 leaves at 22:30 and gets back at 18:05+1.

Turkish Airlines has had passenger flights to Miami for ten years. Between August 2024 and July 2025, the US DOT indicates that it carried 330,000 passengers with an 84% seat load factor. Three in four passengers are estimated to have transferred to another service in Istanbul.

Athens was the most popular market, followed by Moscow, Cairo, Bucharest, Bangkok, Belgrade, Sofia, Budapest, Beirut, and Dubai. If Air Serbia begins Miami flights, as it has often said it will, it’ll target the demand for some of these places.