Topic Reading-Vol.1272-10/5/2015

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,

Airline proposes even longer nonstop: 18 hours

Traveling to Mars takes an unimaginably long flight, a few months. The crew members are going to be all well trained, highly motivated and decently paid for their extraordinary mission. But what about an 18-hour non-stop flight between the world two techiest cities, Bangalore, India and San Francisco, California?

This ambitious route is going to be serviced by Air India. The flight will most likely be filled with IT engineers and businesspersons who opted or are forced to be sitting three-thirds of the day in their assigned seats in the respective classes, which greatly matter the comfortability during the flight. The Internet connection seems to be more important than TV monitor or movies in this flight.

Just in case you are a long-flight enthusiast, there is another nearly-as-long-as this India-America trans-Pacific flight. Dubai-based Emirates airline is going to have a long haul trans-Atlantic flight between Dubai and Panama City. In this flight, you may be sitting with people in trade business more than tourists.

The distance of these two ultra-long haul flights is approximately 14,000 km, nearly 35% of the earth’s circumstance.

Enjoy reading and learning about these upcoming long flights.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/24/aviation/longest-nonstop-flight-considered-san-francisco-india/index.html