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Singapore Airlines Relaunches World's Longest Commercial Flight

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A Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 plane at Changi Airport in Singapore on Dec. 14, 2017. (Toh Ting Wei/AFP/Getty Images)
A Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 plane at Changi Airport in Singapore on Dec. 14, 2017. (Toh Ting Wei/AFP/Getty Images)

Singapore Airlines is relaunching the world's longest airplane flight. The airline will resume trips between Singapore and Newark in the fall — a journey that takes nearly 19 hours.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson learns more about who might take the flight, and the challenges of such a long trip, from Airline Weekly analyst Seth Kaplan.

This segment aired on May 31, 2018.

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