Posted on 10/30/2017 10:17:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Flight 37 departed in Friday evening from Los Angeles International Airport and arrived at Singapore’s Changi Airport nearly 18 hours later.
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United operates the flight with a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, which carries 252 passengers.
The previous record-holder for the longest flight from the United States was service between Dallas and Sydney, Australia, by Qantas that covered 8,575 miles.
In 2013, Singapore Airlines ended nonstop flights to Los Angeles, but the airline said it intends to restart the service next year.
United and Singapore Airlines also have flights between San Francisco and Singapore that are 8,446 miles.
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The Singapore-Los Angeles flight is the world’s third-longest — behind Quantas’ 9,032-mile flight between Doha, Qatar, and Auckland, New Zealand.
(Excerpt) Read more at gephardtdaily.com ...
Singapore airlines used to fly directly to Newark. 18,000 miles. Discontinued in 2013.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Airlines_Flight_21
I took the atl- dxb flight many times.
Also the atl-nrt to tokoyo. Both flights are brutal.
Can’t imagine sitting on a plane that long. Four hrs. is my max.
They are very sweet...true throw backs to the old days of flying (very exotic looking).
Ditto. We went LA to Kyoto to Singapore business class. Reclining seats, good food, stylish attendants with long silk dresses. WE had United Frequent flyer miles and they put us on their partner airline.
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