World's longest non-stop flight ends

[Phil Bunch]

Singapore to New York is the route, now includes a stop in Frankfurt.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-23/world-s-longest-flight-ends-travelers-enter-jfk-chaos.html

An excerpt:

""It didn't make sense to continue," said Siyi Lim, a Singapore-based investment analyst at OCBC Investment Research. "The plane burns a lot of fuel, but carries very few passengers," he said about the Airbus A340-500 aircraft."
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9000 miles is a long time to spend in an airliner!  I almost melted down flying from Los Angeles to Auckland!