The important question, though, is how they find enough people who actually want to go to Newark rather than staying in Singapore.
Singapore Airlines has announced they will resume their nonstop Singapore to Newark/New York flights in 2018, using “a new ultra-long distance variant of the Airbus A350.”
Worst I ever did was 14.5 hrs in one leg. LAX to Aukland, NZ. The whole trip was ABQ-PHX-LAX-Aukland-Wellington. I was much younger then. I wouldn’t want to do that at my present age. The final insult was that we got to the Hotel in Wellington about 7AM and we had to wait while they made up some rooms for us. We did get them to open the bar for us!
Kayak has a page where you can look up all the direct flights to/from an airport.
http://www.kayak.com/direct/EWR/2015-10
New longest flight proposed - an 18.5 hour endurance test from Doha to Aukland
According to the article, the Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore-NYC is even longer and my resume some time soon.
Bumping this once again because QANTAS wants to fly Sydney to London (20 hours and 20 minutes) once the new versions of the Boeing 777 and Airbus A350 come out.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/world-longest-flight-coming-215238831.html
I believe that’s the holy grail of long haul airline routes.
I’ve done that Newark-Singapore non-stop RT twice. It was loooovely. Executive Economy so more leg room, wider seats but the best part was that it was a smaller plane, fewer passengers and IIRC, had bulkheads every 15 rows or so, so it was much quieter. It didn’t have that depressing huge cabin of coach with all the mess.
Now it’s the A380 out of JFK with a stop in Frankfurt so that everyone has to wake up and get off and then queue to reboard the same plane, now with 100% more perky wide-awake German passengers. For another 12-13 hours.
It’s 22 hrs more or less. It’s a long haul yeah, but SIA is the best and there are hundreds of movie and tv channels to chose from and the food choices are great.
I just can’t imagine what it would be like if someone had brought a baby on board and it cried off and on for 20 hours.
I remember doing San Fran to Hong Kong, 17.5 hrs
I had this on an Auckland to Los Angeles flight about 10 years ago. Baby didn’t cry for the whole flight - but about 6 hours of it. For half that time, the noise was what you’d imagine if someone was sticking red-hot needles into the kid: simply blood-curdling.
London to Johannesburg?
That’s not even close to the longest flight in the world. It’s around 5700 miles. San Francisco to Singapore is over 8000 miles, and even that isn’t the very longest nonstop flight.
Well, you can now fly nonstop from Perth to London - http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/the-long-haul-heres-what-to-expect-on-board-australias-longest-flight/news-story/1b09b307d85bf688b0c378b44941ae07
17 hours and 20 minutes, 14,498 KM, second longest in the world.
Singapore is rumored to be re-starting its non-stop from Newark again, again with just Business and Executive Economy class, but will keep the JFK-Frankfurt-Singapore route. I did EE a couple times, it was about twice what I pay now, but I enjoyed not having to get up in the middle of the night to disembark in FF for an hour or two and then re-board with a bunch of perky new passengers.
Yup, 20 hours in the air.
And the cabin staff didn’t have the thoughtfulness to offer you a parachute? Sheesh.
My God, upon arrival I wouldn’t even know what day it was much less what time it was.
I always giggle a bit when I see the term ETOPS. Officially, it means ExTended OPerationS, but more informally, the industry defines it as Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim. :eek:
I find the synergy between the airlines like QANTAS who will run these ultra-long distance routes and the aircraft manufacturers really interesting. They won’t invest in creating these highly specific aircraft unless there is something resembling a firm commitment by airlines to buy them, and airlines in turn will not make a commitment to offer these runs unless there are planes that can actually do it. Passengers will, as many posts attest be extremely wary of the joys of even more hours in the air, so the planes have to offer better amenity and the airlines need to make more bucks to justify the new service and investment. I’m not sure whether whoever blinks first loses badly or gains an amazing advantage.