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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
TopicLong flights

Topic: Long flights

Qantas Airways long-haul flights are not meant for cattle class

The only way airlines can make decent money flying to the far side of the world is by letting business class subsidise the rest of the cabin.

Spicy food, bright lights — how the world’s longest flight aims to beat jet lag

It’s a key test run as Qantas Airways prepares to start direct commercial services connecting Sydney with New York and London as soon as 2022.

Human guinea pigs about to embark on world’s first 20-hour airline flight

Researchers will screen the brains of pilots in Qantas’ Dreamliner for alertness, while monitoring the food, sleep and activity of few dozen passengers.

On Camera

Zohran Mamdani’s shaky politics has come home to bite

The Israel-Palestine question appeared to be the one area where he apparently refused to soften his views. And that refusal is now colliding with the realities of governing.

Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.