World's longest non-stop flight covers 9,537-miles and tickets are expensive

You could binge-watch each six Lord of the Rings films arsenic good arsenic The Hobbit trilogy - and inactive person clip to instrumentality a nap connected this epic non-stop flight

Make definite to bring your headphones if you're readying connected a mammoth travel crossed the globe. While those four-hour Ryanair trips implicit to Tenerife tin sometimes consciousness similar they're dragging, thing rather competes with this beast of a route.

Starting successful Singapore and jetting immoderate 9,537 miles implicit to New York, the world's longest commercialized non-stop travel takes a gruelling 18 hours and 10 minutes. To enactment that into perspective, you could binge-watch each six Lord of the Rings films (a whopping 9.5 hours) arsenic good arsenic The Hobbit trilogy (almost 8 hours) and inactive acceptable successful a half-hour nap earlier touching down successful the US.

Operated by Singapore Airlines, the formation takes disconnected connected a regular ground and is classed arsenic a 'ultra-long range' travel owed to it taking much than 16 hours. In 2023, determination were lone 3,000 scheduled flights that fell nether that category.

According to experts implicit astatine AFAR, Singapore Airlines uses an Airbus A350-900ULR, which is configured with 67 pod-style business-class seats and 94 premium system seats. That right, you can't get regular system seats connected this jet, adjacent if you're consenting to person nary legroom for astir a afloat day.

Naturally, getting a summons connected this level doesn't travel inexpensive - but it mightiness not beryllium arsenic ludicrously costly arsenic you whitethorn archetypal think. A one-way fare departing time (7 February) would acceptable you back SGD 1,635.70 (around £972) portion a cheeky upgrade to concern people would outgo an eye-watering SGD 14,626.30 (£8,708). Booking successful beforehand and flying connected May 7, for example, is presently coming up astatine £673 for a one-way fare successful Premium Economy. Unlike Ryanair, this does see 2 pieces of 23kg luggage and a complimentary spot selection.

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However, Singapore Airlines is slated to suffer its reigning rubric acknowledgment to Qantas. The Australian hose aims to revolutionise the country's question manufacture with its 'Project Sunrise' - which volition spot non-stop flights instrumentality disconnected from Sydney to London and New York. It has chosen the Airbus A350-1000 arsenic its preferred aircraft, and plans to commencement routes successful mid-2026. Travellers connected committee volition beryllium successful for a whooping 10,573 and 9,950 miles respectively - portion those connected the London limb volition beryllium successful the aerial for 20 hours, meaning they'll spot the prima emergence doubly connected the aforesaid travel (if they haven't dozed off).

Unlike Singapore Airlines, an system conception volition beryllium featured connected the aircraft. A wellbeing portion volition besides beryllium accessible, allowing passengers to agelong their legs erstwhile the seatbelt motion isn't on.

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