This Sunday, January 31, an Airbus A350-900 takes off on the longest non-stop flight in Lufthansa’s history under flight number LH2574: 13,700 kilometers from Hamburg to the Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands.

At 9:30 p.m., (German time) it was “ready for take-off” for 16 crew members and 92 passengers. On board the 15-hour flight on behalf of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, are scientists and ship crews traveling to the upcoming expedition with the research vessel RV Polarstern. The A350-900 was transferred from Frankfurt to Hamburg on Sunday afternoon. Arrival at Hamburg Airport was 4:30 p.m. under flight number LH9924.

The Airbus with registration D-AIXP, carrying the name of the German city of Braunschweig, joined the Lufthansa fleet last year. It is one of the world’s most sustainable and economical long-haul aircraft.