Editing Singapore Airlines (section)

=== World's longest non-stop scheduled flight routes ===
On 14 October 2015, Singapore Airlines announced plans to resume the world's longest non-stop flight between Singapore and New York – a 15,300&nbsp;km (9,500&nbsp;mi), 19-hour route that the airline had dropped in 2013.<ref name="LongestFlight">{{cite web |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/the_longest_non-stop_flight_in_the_world_is_returning_to_newark.html#incart_river_home |title=The longest non-stop flight in the world is returning to Newark |date=14 October 2015 |publisher=New Jersey On-Line LLC |author=Steve Strunsky |access-date=14 October 2015 |archive-date=11 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211041138/http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/the_longest_non-stop_flight_in_the_world_is_returning_to_newark.html#incart_river_home |url-status=live}}</ref> A340-500 aircraft were formerly employed to serve this route until their retirement in 2013.<ref name="ALR" /> 

SIA resumed the route following the acquisition of new Airbus [[Airbus A350 XWB#A350-900ULR|A350-900ULR]] aircraft on 18 October 2018.<ref name="ALR">{{cite web |url=http://www.airbus.com/newsevents/news-events-single/detail/airbus-launches-new-ultra-long-range-version-of-the-a350-900/ |title=Airbus launches new Ultra-Long Range version of the A350-900 |website=airbus |language=en-US |access-date=2016-05-16 |archive-date=16 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016021207/http://www.airbus.com/newsevents/news-events-single/detail/airbus-launches-new-ultra-long-range-version-of-the-a350-900 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/first-delivered-a350-900ulr-departs-for-singapore-452104/ |title=PICTURES: First delivered A350-900ULR departs for Singapore |first=David |last=Kaminski-Morrow |date=22 September 2018 |website=Flightglobal.com |access-date=27 June 2019 |archive-date=23 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123215516/https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/first-delivered-a350-900ulr-departs-for-singapore-452104/ |url-status=live}}</ref> At the time, [[Singapore Airlines Flights 21 and 22]] was the longest scheduled route in the world.<ref name="Smith">{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Oliver |date=6 February 2023 |title=The world's 10 longest flights – and the service that could soon take the record |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-truths/worlds-longest-non-stop-flights/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308232518/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-truths/worlds-longest-non-stop-flights/ |archive-date=8 March 2023 |access-date=10 March 2023 |website=The Telegraph |agency=The Telegraph}}</ref> It was suspended again in March 2020 due to [[COVID-19 pandemic]], and resumed in March 2022.<ref name="Smith" />

On 9 November 2020, SIA relaunched the nonstop flights between Changi Airport and New York, but this time to [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]], three times a week.<ref>{{Cite news |title=SIA to restart flights to New York amid 'early signs of optimism' in air travel recovery |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singapore-airlines-sia-restart-flights-new-york-jfk-covid-19-13321000 |access-date=2020-10-20 |author=Staff writers |work=CNA |publisher=Mediacorp |location=Singapore |language=en |archive-date=14 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214071832/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singapore-airlines-sia-restart-flights-new-york-jfk-covid-19-13321000 |url-status=live}}</ref> The route, [[Singapore Airlines Flights 23 and 24]], is the longest scheduled flight in the world.