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A Singapore Airlines Airbus A350-900ULR (one of only seven ever produced) just after landing in into New York JFK from Singapore after completing the world's current longest non-stop flight. 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 ]
In 1924, KLM launched a service from Amsterdam to Batavia (as Jakarta was then known), the world’s longest air route at the time. In 1946, it became the first European airline to begin scheduled ...
For routes from the EU, UK, Switzerland, Iceland and Norway to other countries inside Europe except to Turkey, the busiest was in 2019 Paris/CDG – Moscow/Sheremetyevo with 830,980. Busiest flight routes in or from Europe by city pairs
In June 2004, Singapore Airlines introduced Flight SQ21, using the Airbus A340-500 on a record breaking 15,344-kilometre (9,534 mi; 8,285 nmi) great circle route from Newark to Singapore, passing within 130 kilometres (81 mi; 70 nmi) of the North Pole.
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 ...
The airline currently operates a one-stop flight via Singapore, but the Project Sunrise flights will become the longest air link in the world, with the airline describing the London-Sydney route ...
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 − I did a lot of flying last week, even as an airline reporter. My journeys even helped me complete an avgeek rite of passage: I took the longest flight in the world, from New York to ...