{"id":290303,"date":"2019-09-04T05:51:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T05:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290303"},"modified":"2019-09-04T05:51:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T05:51:01","slug":"18-hour-non-stop-flights-how-to-survive-the-worlds-longest-flights-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/18-hour-non-stop-flights-how-to-survive-the-worlds-longest-flights-in-style\/","title":{"rendered":"18-hour non-stop flights: How to survive the world&#8217;s longest flights in style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight hours from Sydney to Singapore? It\u2019s a doddle. 12 hours from Hong Kong to London? No sweat.<\/p>\n<p>With a high-tech assist from Airbus and Boeing, airlines are steadily pushing the boundaries of long-distance flying. Even the language is being redefined. The new frontier is the \u201cultra-long range&#8221; flight, where globe-striding jets regularly tackle journeys of more than 16,000km (9,942 miles).<\/p>\n<p>For passengers, that translates to 18-plus hours in the air. But for many business travelers, even those non-stop marathons prove the superior alternative to airport lay-overs halfway along the route. So if you\u2019re in for the long haul, here\u2019s the best way to handle it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight hours from Sydney to Singapore? It\u2019s a doddle. 12 hours from Hong Kong to London? No sweat. With a high-tech assist from Airbus and Boeing, airlines are steadily pushing the boundaries of long-distance flying. Even the language is being redefined. The new frontier is the \u201cultra-long range&#8221; flight, where globe-striding jets regularly tackle journeys of more than 16,000km (9,942 miles). For passengers, that translates to 18-plus hours in the air. But for many business travelers, even those non-stop marathons prove the superior alternative to airport lay-overs halfway along the route. So if you\u2019re in for the long haul, here\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}