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Old Oct 22, 2004 | 12:13 pm
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yalie25
 
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Originally Posted by izzik
Not directly related, but:

EWR-SIN is considered transatlantic for SQ. So, it's not always what you'd think.
why would they consider it transatlantic when they don't fly the route over the Atlantic?

well, one need to only consider what some of these airlines refer to as "direct" flights to realize that these are all merely issues of semantics and don't necessarily make realistic sense.
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