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Where do the limits lie for ultra-long-haul air travel? - Independent
If you have encountered CNN’s Richard Quest on a flight, there’s a good chance that it was setting a new aviation endurance record. In March, the business journalist was aboard the inaugural non-stop flight from Australia to the UK, Qantas flight 9 from Perth to London – a point-to-point distance of 9,009 miles.
And early on Friday morning, at New York’s Newark Airport, he stepped from Singapore Airlines flight 22 at the end of a marathon trip from Southeast Asia, 9,534 miles away, in just under 18 hours.
But Mr Quest may have a wait before he checks in for another record breaker.
If you have encountered CNN’s Richard Quest on a flight, there’s a good chance that it was setting a new aviation endurance record. In March, the business journalist was aboard the inaugural non-stop flight from Australia to the UK, Qantas flight 9 from Perth to London – a point-to-point distance of 9,009 miles.
And early on Friday morning, at New York’s Newark Airport, he stepped from Singapore Airlines flight 22 at the end of a marathon trip from Southeast Asia, 9,534 miles away, in just under 18 hours.
But Mr Quest may have a wait before he checks in for another record breaker.