Comments on: Travel news: this month (October 2019) in luxury travel/travel-news-october-2019/travel your dreams in styleSat, 26 Oct 2019 13:09:09 +0000hourly1By: The Luxury Travel Expert/travel-news-october-2019/#comment-174266Sat, 26 Oct 2019 13:09:09 +0000/?p=234339#comment-174266]]>In reply to Kinny.

Air New Zealand does not fly from Singapore to London. Qantas does 😉

]]>By: Kinny/travel-news-october-2019/#comment-174265Sat, 26 Oct 2019 12:36:56 +0000/?p=234339#comment-174265Air New Zealand will still be flying to London, just not via LAX. Singapore will still be a European link.

]]>By: James/travel-news-october-2019/#comment-174262Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:40:48 +0000/?p=234339#comment-174262I do wish that people would stop referring to the recent Qantas 787-9 flight from New York to Sydney as the “longest ever commercial flight”. It wasn’t. It was a technical trial flight with a limited number of invited guests, occupying businss class only – no economy class and no freight on board. No one could book it.

It wasn’t even on an aircraft type that would ultimately fly the route commercially, when and if it is decided to be viable.

It was a”test-bed” flight to get some feedback about the effects on passengers of flying non-stop for such a long time.

The descriptor is Qantas’ “spin”, to maximise the PR flow-on from making a diversion to what would have been a normal new aircraft delivery flight from the US to Australia.

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