Flight SQ 21 is famous - it's the longest commercial flight in the world - 18.5 hrs from Newark to Singapore with no stopovers. There are no coach or first class seats, it's all business class. Where there would normally be seven seats across, there are only four: one on each window and two next to each other in the middle.
How one chooses to pass the 18 and a half hours is a matter of personal style. We boarded at 11pm on Tuesday and wouldn't be landing until Thursday morning at 6am. I started off with a movie - the Hunger Games. Then eight hours of sleep followed by a Swedish 007 action flick, then a Hong Kong gangster movie and finally a Taiwanese love story. A glance at the flight tracker showed that we literally climbed over the roof of the world, spending a lot of time over the pole. We flew around the world so fast that my body doesn't even realize it's jet lagged yet.
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