Singapore Airlines starts offering a daily non-stop flight from Changi International Airport to a couple of New York international airports like John F Kennedy and Newark airports simultaneously this spring. These two will be the world's longest routes with 9,537 and 9,534 miles respectively (15,348 and 15,343 kilometres). Let’s wait for more to discover.
Starting in March, the airline will add SIN-EWR to its route map. That month, Singapore Airlines will only offer four flights, according to Cirium, but it will have a daily operation between both airports by April.
Singapore Airlines’ Airbus A350-900ULR has 161 seats split into two cabins: 67 business-class pods and 94 premium economy seats.
Singapore Airlines flies to JFK, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and Seattle. Photo: Getty Images
Many flights to New York City
Singapore Airlines will have three different routes from Singapore to New York City. There’s the SIN-JFK, the longest non-stop route in the world, there will be SIN-EWR, will be the second-longest non-stop route in the world, but there’s also the fifth-freedom flight between Singapore, Frankfurt, and JFK. On this route, the airline currently uses its Airbus A380 aircraft, according to Cirium.
To the US, Singapore Airlines also operates fifth-freedom flights via Tokyo (to Los Angeles), Manchester (to Houston), and Vancouver (to Seattle), per Cirium.