Regulars lament end of S'pore-Newark direct

[SINGAPORE] The end of the world's longest non-stop commercial flight, a 19-hour slog between Singapore and an airport near New York, is bad news for Chia Teck Fatt.

The 16,000 km journey from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey, helped him avoid congestion at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport.

Passengers will instead fly to JFK via Frankfurt, adding five hours. Singapore Airlines (SIA) stops the services with its all-business class four-engine Airbus A340-500 next month. It ended the second-longest flight, from Los Angeles to the island city on Oct 22.