29 juin 2004 04:36
Singapore Airlines beats its own flight distance record
Isabelle Hontebeyrie
The A340-500 departed at 12:25 Singapore local time on June 28th and completed the 16,600 km / 9,000 nautical mile sector to New York in 18 hours 18 minutes. The airline beat its own previous distance record for non-stop round-trip commercial service, when it introduced the A340-500 on the route between Singapore and Los Angeles on February 3rd of this year. On that occasion, the A340-500 completed the 14,093 km / 7,609 nm sector to Los Angeles in 14 hours 42 minutes.
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