I am irationally excited about this

[wise_rita]

That is effing amazing! I would gladly take an insanely long flight to cut down on stop overs.

But, um, you are missing one very critical piece of information here. HOW LONG IS THE FLIGHT?!

According to this Singapore to Newark is only the 2nd longest flight:

finance.yahoo.com/news/worlds-longest-flights-211655905.html

If I may also bragplain, I will one day take the 8th longest flight, Brisbane to Dallas.

[wise_rita]

The biggest benefit I have found to living in Australia so far is realizing that a US to Europe flight is a cake walk.

[MissusTexas]

May 20, 2012 8:35:10 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

The biggest benefit I have found to living in Australia so far is realizing that a US to Europe flight is a cake walk.

It only took one flight to Sydney to make me appreciate that! Anything shorter seems perfectly fine now.

[basilosaurus]

I thought there was going to be a london sydney flight that was the longest ever.

I once had a 19 hour flight, but that probably doesn't count bc that was with a fueling stop. They didn't let anyone off the plane, but they did wake our asses up to get our carryon to hold on our lap. My sleeping pill haze did not like that.

[mdgirl]

The biggest benefit I have found to living in Australia so far is realizing that a US to Europe flight is a cake walk.

The first flight I can actually remember taking is Detroit-Seoul when I was 15 -- it was 14 hours, and we had a layover and a flight to HK after that. I seriously don't understand people whining about flights less than 9 hours.

[Deleted]

May 20, 2012 8:35:10 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

The biggest benefit I have found to living in Australia so far is realizing that a US to Europe flight is a cake walk.

Yep that's one of the things that use to piss me off on the nest - no a 14 hr flight isn't long, no Sth America is not that far from the US.....people look at me horrified when I say Tokyo isn't too far away on a 9 hr flight!

[americaninoz]

May 20, 2012 18:10:06 GMT -5 @maggie78 said:

May 20, 2012 8:35:10 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

The biggest benefit I have found to living in Australia so far is realizing that a US to Europe flight is a cake walk.

Yep that's one of the things that use to piss me off on the nest - no a 14 hr flight isn't long, no Sth America is not that far from the US.....people look at me horrified when I say Tokyo isn't too far away on a 9 hr flight!

So so true - I feel like all the London-US flights I used to do were just SO short when I think about it now. Try doing the 14 hour flight with a baby/toddler - ahhhh good times. I love living in Oz but OMG so don't like those flights

[fernane]

That's awesome and I would totally do it for the bragging rights, haha..I think I remember at one point Johannesurg to NY being the longest and I wanted to do it back then just to say I had done it..well that and to go back to SA!