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TravelNewsAsia release of 1 August 2002: Virgin Atlantic's A340-600 "took its first commercial flight today from Heathrow to New York's JFK airport"; Captain Chris Pohl also recalls flying the first aircraft LHR-New York "That August".[1]Virgin Atlantic's A340-600, the longest airliner in the world at 75.3 m, flew its first commercial service from Heathrow to New York JFK on 1 August 2002. It was the first of ten, a US$1.9 billion order.
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