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Qantas has cleverly standardised on the Thompson Vantage XL seat as its longhaul Business Suite standard. JOHN WALTON
Sunrise: Projecting?
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A PR coup, but will it fly — and on what?
Nineteen hours and sixteen minutes. On the face of it, the first commercial nonstop airline flight from New York to Sydney is a monumental achievement, even if one notes the load of just forty passengers onboard flight QF7879, on Boeing 787-9 VH-ZNI, Kookaburra.
Indeed, it’s only thirty-five minutes more than the world’s current longest flight has taken over the last couple of months. According to data from flight tracking site FlightRadar24, Singapore Airlines’ flight SQ21 — scheduled for took 18 hours and 41 minutes to wend its way from Newark to Changi on 28 August.
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