What actually happens to your body on a 24-hour flight

It’s an exciting time for long-haul travel (Picture: Getty Images/Metro)

It’s official. The Guinness World Record for the longest commercial flight by distance has been broken.

Let’s refresh our memory. In July, a flight departed Melbourne, Australia, and landed in Toulouse, France, just over 24 hours later.

It was part of the flight test campaign for the Airbus A350-1000ULR, developed for Qantas Airways under its ambitious Project Sunrise.

All in, the plane covered a whopping 12,503 nautica...