SINGAPORE (May 30): Singapore Airlines (SIA) announced it is relaunching its non-stop services between Singapore and New York in October, which will also mark the world’s longest commercial flight.

The route will return to the Singapore carrier the bragging rights it had before it stopped such flights to Newark, N.J., and Los Angeles in 2013.

(See: SIA gains after plan to resume world's longest flights)

Surging fuel costs had forced the carrier to end those flights... (Click here to read the full story)