LOT Polish Airlines will start services from its Warsaw hub to London City Airport and acquire four Embraer E190s specifically for the route. The carrier already operates into Heathrow 3X-daily. LOT will offer up to two flights daily to LCY, with single flights on Saturday and Sunday. London City will be the airline’s 100th destination. The airport has a notably short runway and approaches from the west must be carried out using a steeper-than-normal approach because of high buildings in the Docklands financial district a couple of miles from the western threshold. Only certain aircraft are approved to fly into LCY, including the Embraer E-Jet family. LOT will lease four new E190 E1 versions via lessor NAC; all will be delivered by the end of 2018, with services to LCY scheduled to start on Jan. 7, 2019. The acquisition means LOT will be the first airline to operate all four models of the Embraer E1 range, the carrier said. <br/>
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Passengers booked on the world's longest flight -- a 19-hour nonstop of more than 9,000 nautical miles between Singapore and Newark, New Jersey, set to commence this October -- needn't worry about numb butt syndrome. The Singapore Airlines Airbus A350-900 ULR (an acronym denoting that it's modified for efficient Ultra Long Range flying) serving the marathon route won't be subjecting its fliers to economy class. Travellers on this premier route will instead have a choice of just two premium classes: the 67-seat Business Class cabin, or the 94-seat cabin of Premium Economy seats so good they could almost pass for Business Class. Now that the aircraft are only months away from delivery, it's crunch time for the airline and Zodiac Aerospace, manufacturer of the seats the airline has heavily customized. To discover just how complex it is to construct an airplane seat, let alone one destined for the world's longest flight, CNN Travel headed behind the scenes at Zodiac's factory in Gainesville, Texas, as the last sets of the Premium Economy seats for the ULR aircraft came off the production line. Story has details about the design and production of the seats.<br/>