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A Singapore Airlines Airbus A350-900ULR (one of only seven ever produced) taxiing at New York JFK having just completed the world's current longest non-stop flight from Singapore. In the late 2000s/early 2010s, rising fuel prices coupled with the Great Recession caused the cancellation of many ultra long-haul, non-stop flights. [ 125 ]
A TAP Portugal Airbus A319-100 lands at Frankfurt Airport in 2011.. TAP Air Portugal was founded as a division of Portugal's Civil Aviation Department under the name Transportes Aéreos Portugueses on 14 March 1945, [1] and started operations on 19 September 1946, initially serving the Lisbon–Madrid route using the Douglas DC-3.
October 18, 2018, Singapore Airlines relaunched Flight SQ 21/22 [21] using the fuel efficient Airbus A350-900ULR with a scheduled flight duration of 18 hours 45 minutes. It remained the world's longest scheduled ultra-long-haul commercial flight until its suspension on March 24, 2020 due to the global drop in demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Singapore Airlines currently holds the title for operating the world's two longest flights at over 9,500 miles each. The 10 longest routes in the world flown by airlines, ranked by distance Skip ...
Singapore Airlines Flights 23 and 24 (SQ23/SIA23 and SQ24/SIA24, respectively) are the longest regularly scheduled non-stop flights in the world, operated by Singapore Airlines between Singapore Changi Airport and New York–JFK. [1] The route launched on 9 November 2020. [2]
As of November 9, 2020, Singapore Airlines Flights 23 and 24 is the world's longest active commercial flight between Singapore and New York–JFK, covering 15,349 km (9,537 mi; 8,288 nmi) in around 18 hours and 40 minutes, operated by an Airbus A350-900ULR. [40]
In March 2020 the airline saw reduced demand and cancelled flights to Europe. El Al proposed in early March 2020 to lay off 1 in 6 of its 6,200 employees. Israel has discontinued the entry from some nations of all non-Israelis and mandated that Israelis who return from said nations put themselves into a self-imposed two week quarantine. [7]
Per the airport’s report, Flight AAL7 is the longest flight that’s taken off and landed in their network. American Airlines landed its longest-ever direct flight after 8,300 miles in 16 and a ...