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

Reuters ^ | May 30, 2018 | Staff

[Mr. Jeeves]

Great flight - except for the part about ending up in Newark. :)

I just did Singapore to Phoenix through Guangzhou, China and Los Angeles last week. 30 hours door-to-door, including a fair amount of sitting around in airports. Thankfully the CAN-LAX leg was in business class, or I would not be fully conscious yet.

[canuck_conservative]

The “Great Circle” routes are the shortest way between any two points on a sphere.

If you pull tight a string between Dallas and Hong Kong on a globe, you’ll see that it passes thru Anchorage

[M Kehoe]

I couldn’t tolerate a 19 hour flight in first class.

5.56mm

[robroys woman]

I was assuming a round trip. :-D

[BitWielder1]

I guess I have to study the curvature of the earth better!

Find an Earth globe and a flexible ruler and it will make sense.
(Or assume that all the world's pilots are in on the round earth conspiracy.)

[Terry L Smith]

Touche’!!

[robroys woman]

(Or assume that all the world’s pilots are in on the round earth conspiracy.)

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I’d have spewed coffee if I were drinking any.
Good one!

[rktman]

Possibly ONLY colluding! 😹✈️

[Vigilanteman]

Not only one of the most comfortable airlines in the world, but the flight attendants are smoking hot!

[pabianice]

http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/attractions/aircraft-exhibits/item/?item=p2v_truculentturtle

[GotMojo]

I think the plane is fitted out with an ice box, should someone kick the bucket while enroute......no joke.

[pabianice]

I have plotted many courses on a Lambert Conformal Projection Map. They all appear as straight lines while really describing great circle routes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_conformal_conic_projection

[Rome2000]

I’d rather fly from Singapore to hell than Newark.

Why not JFK?