The world's longest non-stop commercial flight has landed in New York, ending a journey from Singapore of more than 15,000km in 17 hours and 52 minutes.
Singapore Airlines relaunched the service five years after it was cut because it had become too expensive.
Flight SQ22 landed at 0529 US Eastern time with 150 passengers and 17 crew.
Geoffrey Thomas, editor-in-chief of Airlineratings.com, said the time passed swiftly and had not seemed like a 17-and-a-half hour flight.
He told the BBC: "The flight was effortless and very smooth.
"On board the consensus was that the time passed very quickly and didn't seem like 17.5 hours."
The inaugural flight from Changi Airport to Newark's international airport, which services New York, took off amid much fanfare.
Qantas launched a 17-hour non-stop service from Perth to London earlier this year, while Qatar runs a 17.5-hour service between Auckland and Doha.
The brand new Airbus plane that SIA is using has been configured to seat 161 passengers in all - 67 business passengers and 94 premium economy passengers.
Geoffrey Thomas said: "This is a route between two massive financial hubs, and so they will fill this plane up with business people, or well-heeled travellers who want the convenience of a non stop flight.
"It's also been proven that when carriers introduce a new non-stop route, the traffic on that route increases threefold."
source: BBC News