Ultra long-haul

It’s not really goodbye

Much is being made of the impending closure of the longest nonstop scheduled flights in the world – Singapore Airlines’ services from its hub at Changi Airport to Newark and Los Angeles.

Served for nearly a decade by a five-strong fleet of Airbus A340‑500s making the 17-19 hour flights, the realities of twenty-teens aviation economics have done for the two thousands’ crown jewel routes.