{"id":297218,"date":"2019-10-21T11:17:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T05:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=297218"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:17:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T05:47:23","slug":"plane-became-a-flying-laboratory-says-passenger-who-took-worlds-first-20-hour-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/plane-became-a-flying-laboratory-says-passenger-who-took-worlds-first-20-hour-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Plane became a flying laboratory,&#8217; says passenger who took world&#8217;s first 20-hour flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just endured the world\u2019s newest longest flight, a 16,200 kilometer (10,100 mile), nonstop ultra-marathon from New York to Sydney. It took about 19 and a half hours, and was almost as demanding as that sounds.<\/p>\n<p>The record-breaking Qantas Airways Ltd. flight touched down early Sunday morning in Australia. The Boeing Co. Dreamliner delivered its few dozen passengers \u2014 including yours truly \u2014 to their destination more or less intact, even if some of us were not quite sure what day it was.<\/p>\n<p>Qantas wants to begin flying the time-saving route commercially as soon as 2022, so the airline used this test trip to explore ways to reduce its inevitable downside: Soul-crushing, body-buckling jet lag. Here\u2019s how my journey unfolded in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just endured the world\u2019s newest longest flight, a 16,200 kilometer (10,100 mile), nonstop ultra-marathon from New York to Sydney. It took about 19 and a half hours, and was almost as demanding as that sounds. The record-breaking Qantas Airways Ltd. flight touched down early Sunday morning in Australia. The Boeing Co. Dreamliner delivered its few dozen passengers \u2014 including yours truly \u2014 to their destination more or less intact, even if some of us were not quite sure what day it was. Qantas wants to begin flying the time-saving route commercially as soon as 2022, so the airline used [&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-297218","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\/297218","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=297218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}