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How's this for a detour? Over on TikTok people are losing their minds as to why the world's longest flight travels in an over-exaggerated curve and not in a straight line from New York City to Singapore.
Travelling at a whopping distance of 9,537 miles, people have had their brains twisted over its questionable logic.
TikTok user Travel With DJ documented the curved details of the world's longest non-stop commercial flight. The Singapore Airlines flight takes off from John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport and lands in Singapore Chani Airport.
Travelling from Singapore back to New York is thought to take 18 hours and 50 minutes, according to Upgraded Points.
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With over 100,000 comments, one TikTok user asked: "Why don't they just fly straight east?"
Another wrote: "Traveled to Singapore six times and have never seen this route."
"Pilot had beef with Europe," joke a third.
So why doesn't the flight travel in a straight line? According to One Monroe Aerospace, 'most flights travelling from the US to Asia choose curved routes' because they are safer and 'quicker'.
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