The Boeing 787 has the largest passenger-window surface area in service today — about 196.8 square inches from a widely cited 10.7-by-18.4-inch pane. But the Airbus A220 is the wider window at 11 inches, beating the 787's 10.7. "Largest" has…

The longest scheduled nonstop passenger route you can actually book is Singapore Airlines' New York/Newark to Singapore service, flown by an Airbus A350-900ULR and blocked at roughly 18 to 19 hours. The farthest commercial-aircraft flight on record is Boeing's 2005…

There is no single, universal standard for verifying aviation "world records." Competition records — speed, altitude, distance — fall under the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale's Sporting Code, which demands certified documentation and an official observer. Passenger-count and evacuation records, like the…