Singapore to Launch World’s Longest Non-Stop Flight

If you want to have some real living adventure and at the same time ready to get bored yet excited , then try a travel from Singapore to New York non stop for 20 hours in air, as Singapore Airlines, new plane, A350-900ULR Airbus is all set to travel record-breaking and globe tottering flight from October 11.

The plane is going to fly 11,160 miles and thus the Singapore Airlines is going to claim a feather to its crown of glory by becoming world’s longest non-stop air travel. The plane had its first test flight this April, where it undertook a five hour round trip from Toulouse in France, where the flight has been assembled. It’ll also break the present record of Qantas Airlines 787 flight from Perth to London by more than 3 hours.

According to Florent Petteni, Marketing Director Airbus Aircraft A 350, “The A350 is a clean-sheet design that has been designed for long-range flights”. All A350 aircraft share the same Airbus design philosophy thereby giving the aircraft cabin, a feel more like a room, rather than only a tube. The plane is maintained with high and spacious ceiling, scientific LED lighting and vertical sidewalls allowing very little noise level to those on board.

These features along with additional facilities will combine together to give an improved passenger experience according to the officials of the Airbus maker, “you may not exactly pinpoint why it's so comfortable and so nice to be flying on this airplane, but everything was done on purpose”. Moreover, there are some simple and unique facilities that the passengers are going to enjoy. Like the windows of the aircraft, which include wide and panoramic windows and there will be lots of windows. As Petteni says, “we have no missing windows. Whenever a passenger selects a window seat, they will always get a window”.

The airline is going to give choice to its passenger, how they want their sleep to be, by providing an environment of restful sleep. The passenger can pull down a shade or can have a push-button system, which will darken the cabin. To give comfortable experience in the flight the air circulation system of the A350 is made to be quiet and sound free. “So even though we recycle the air in the full capacity of the cabin every two to three minutes, we do it in a way that we reduce the velocity of the air inside the cabin”, says Petteni.

The flight will consume 24,000 liters of fuel in a single trip to fly on its 20-hour mission and to reserve the fuel a central fuel tank of the same size is built.

The new flights will initially run three times a week, with daily operations starting October 18 after a second Airbus A350-900 joins the service. Tickets for the flight are available for sale from 31st May. The Singapore Airlines is also taking delivery of Airbus newest wide-body aircraft, the A350-900.