According to a SIA press release "Singapore Airlines presented its latest ultra-long haul aircraft, Airbus 340-500 which will be part of the fleet and connect daily Singapore to Los Angeles in February 2004. A non-stop flight, the longest in the world, at present, which lasts 16 hours from SIN to LAX and 18.5 on the return flight, about two hours less compared to the current flights that make a stopover...