Giant Pandas Fly 15 Hours Nonstop From China To Atlanta On FedEx Boeing 777F

Two giant pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, left Chengdu for Atlanta on a nonstop FedEx Boeing 777F flight scheduled to last more than 15 hours. The pair departed Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport at 2:55 AM local time on Sunday on FedEx flight FX9756 and are expected to arrive at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport around 6:30 AM, for an estimated 15 hours 30 minutes in the air over roughly 6,900 nautical miles (12,800 km). The pandas will spend the next ten years at Zoo Atlanta, arriving nearly two years after the zoo’s prior pandas returned to China.