I just don't know that I could be on a plane for THIS long.....

[marmar]

........the longest nonstop segment I've taken is Detroit-Rome. For the journey in this story, I think I'd need to connect.





(Bloomberg) Singapore Airlines Ltd. is poised to regain the title of world’s longest flight with a nonstop service to New York.

The 19-hour journey covering more than 15,300 kilometers (9,300 miles) will beat the proposed 13,821-kilometer flight that Emirates intends to start in February from its Dubai home to Panama City. Singapore Air will take delivery of an ultra-long range version of Airbus Group SE’s A350 in 2018 for the nonstop service, the carrier said in an e-mailed statement Tuesday.

“This will be the right equipment for Singapore Airlines to make the numbers work for them for the nonstop flights,” said Shukor Yusof, founder of Endau Analytics in Malaysia. “Singapore has the reservoir of business travelers around the region to make this work. This will help Singapore Airlines strengthen its U.S. market, where it was lagging.”

Currently, the world’s longest flight is Qantas Airways Ltd.’s service from Sydney to Dallas.

Airlines globally are again embracing ultra-long range flights on expectations they’ll be profitable as fuel prices have declined and new technologies make planes more fuel-efficient. Iconic trans-Atlantic flights on the supersonic Concorde were scrapped more than a decade ago, and the shrinking of Wall Street firms and travel cutbacks since the global financial crisis have made it difficult for airlines to lure top-dollar clients. ........................(more)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-13/singapore-air-to-restart-world-s-longest-flight-with-airbus-jet

[Orrex]

1. They should just drill straight through the earth. Much efficienter.

[Travis_0004]

2. An A380 taking off in Poland can go anywhere on land except New Zealand

From Oklahoma an A380 could fly anywhere but Madagascar. (Neither plane could make it to antartica)