The world’s longest flight came to an end on November 23 as Singapore Airlines stopped the nonstop flight from Singapore to Newark.
The last flight to make the 9,506 mile journey landed on Saturday night.
The flight was around 18.5 hours and round-trip tickets cost between $6,000 and $8,000, reported NJ.com.
There are about 20 other similar flights, but none are nonstop.
Singapore Airlines also halted a nonstop flight from Singapore to Los Angeles.
“It boiled down to the route didn’t earn enough of a profit,” said Henry Harteveldt, a travel industry analyst at Hudson Crossing, an industry consulting firm. “Supporting the aircraft doesn’t outweigh the cost involved. You need parts for this plane and there are only a handful available.
“It’s a shame this route didn’t work out, but I would bet in a few years it might be reopened,” Harteveldt said. “It’s one of those long, thin (low-demand) routes that might be viable if it flew a few times a week” instead of daily.
