{"id":250956,"date":"2025-07-14T13:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T03:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/world-longest-flight-no-economy-class\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T13:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T03:55:16","slug":"why-the-worlds-longest-flight-does-not-have-economy-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=250956","title":{"rendered":"Why The World&#8217;s Longest Flight Does Not Have Economy Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore Airlines operates the world&#8217;s two longest nonstop commercial flights between Singapore and New York. These are flown by special-built ultra-long-range A350-900ULR aircraft required to fly the distance. The route is intended for <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2034519\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/video\/why-does-the-world-s-longest-flight-not-have-economy-class\/\" >higher-paying business customers and other customers willing to pay a premium<\/a><\/span> to save a few hours flying between the two destinations. As such, these aircraft are unusual for being configured without economy class seating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore Airlines operates the world&#8217;s only A350-900ULRs, and these are configured with just business and premium economy class seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,7843,396,476,1005],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a350","category-airbus-a350-900ulr","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-singapore-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250957,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250956\/revisions\/250957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}