Singapore Airlines to launch world's longest commercial flight in October

Reuters ^ | May 30, 2018 | Staff

[C19fan]

Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIAL.SI) said it would launch the world’s longest commercial flight in October, a near-19 hour non-stop journey from Singapore to the New York area. The 8,277 nautical mile (15,329 kilometer) flight from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey with 161 business class and premium economy seats will eclipse the 7,843 nautical mile Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Auckland as the world’s longest, according to airline data provider OAG.

[a fool in paradise]

19 hours? That’s a long commercial, when do they find time for the movie?

[robroys woman]

So, to NYC is only an hour longer. Must be due to “great circle” routing.

[rktman]

🛫 About 2 hours max for me. 🛬

[Mr Ramsbotham]

One million bottles of beer on the wall ... one million bottles of beer ...

[Ann Archy]

We just flew from Dallas to Hong Kong and we went STRAIGHT NORTH up to the Artic Circle and then down over China!!!! That seemed so damned WEIRD to me!! I guess I have to study the curvature of the earth better!

[Ann Archy]

You have to wear compression socks and get up a LOT!

[Blueflag]

I did Kuala Lumpur to Frankfurt. Qantas. COACH on 747.

Brutal but had to meet a timeline.

[Ann Archy]

HUH??

[Ann Archy]

Just flew Qantas for the first time 3 months ago....Shanghai to Sydney then to Brisbane.....other than getting there safely, Qantas left a LOT to be desired!

Flew American to Hong Kong and was PLEASANTLY SURPRISED HOW NICE IT WAS!!

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"We just flew from Dallas to Hong Kong and we went STRAIGHT NORTH up to the Artic Circle and then down over China!!!!"

Flying from Camp Pendleton in California to Okinawa we always flew north to Alaska and then across to Okinawa. I think it has something to do with catching the correct wind speeds across the Pacific. In the end, they save more fuel by flying that route than going straight across.

[mountn man]

Now a days you have IFE that gives you literally hundreds of movies and tv shows and video games.

[Ann Archy]

I thought maybe we had a female pilot!! (HA)

[donozark]

Well, at least bill Clinton isn’t sticking his head around the corner in any of those photos!

[irishjuggler]

I hear ya, and I’m well aware that many of the international carriers have near-supermodel flight attendants (and the U.S. and some Euro operators are actually unique in their apparent disregard for looks or age as a hiring criteria). At the same time, if I’m stuck in a cramped coach seat for a long-haul flight, I don’t care how hot the stewardesses are. If I’m going >8 hours, I need to be comfortable. And once you’ve had a fully flat seat, it’s hard to go back.

[robroys woman]

Sing to LA is 18 hours and Sing to NY is 19 hours, but LA to NY is a lot more than one hour. I’m assuming a great circle route that makes it only one hour longer than Sing to LA.

[mountn man]

https://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/us/flying-withus/entertainment/games-apps/

[onedoug]

If they get clearance to overfly NW Russia, they’ll wing it over the North Pole down to NY.

Sleep, food, walking and entertainment. Probably round trip.

[Zathras]

You are BAD!
LOL

[Zathras]

Yep, Singapore Airlines.
You only need to fly once to know why its popular

[Terry L Smith]

Dear robroys woman,

re: “On the plus side, I always needed some private time to finally read War and Peace.”

I’ve read the English translation 364 pgs., and the Russian print version 480 pgs. Are you sure you are gauging your time right, at 19 hrs.??

I used to work in an anechoic chamber radar test structure. Yes, it was larger than the structure of an aircraft fuselage, but “shift end” was very desireable. 19 hours is a “stretch”.