Particularly, the service flies its Airbus A350 plane nonstop between Singapore and John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport in New York and Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport in New Jersey.
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The airline additionally flies its mammoth Airbus A380 jet between Singapore and New York through Frankfurt, Germany, shuttling as much as 379 passengers in 4 cabins, together with economic system, premium economic system, enterprise class, and top notch suites.
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The meals are specifically designed to enhance style, assist passengers really feel fuller, and cut back indigestion and insulin spikes on the 19-hour journeys.
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Singapore sources many of the components from AeroFarms, which is an indoor vertical farm positioned near each New York-JFK and Newark airports. AeroFarm’s meals is a part of the common menu served onboard Singapore’s A380 flights as nicely.
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The wellness meals on the A350s and the common menu on the A380 additionally use “tank-to-plane” Steelhead fish sourced from Hudson Valley Fisheries in New York.
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Insider joined Singapore’s international meals & beverage director, Antony McNeil, and the farm’s CEO, John Ng, to be taught extra concerning the course of and style just a few of the airline’s meals. Have a look.
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Hudson Valley Fisheries is positioned 130 miles from New York Metropolis, making the transport of the fish faster and extra environmentally pleasant than delivery them from nations with giant fishing operations, like Norway and Chile.
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Particularly, the transport emits 43 tons of CO2, based on the corporate. This compares to 3420 tons if flown from Norway and 5035 tons of flown from Chile.
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All of the fish on the farm, which has 80 staff, are raised in a “closed-loop” system relatively than in open water, that means there isn’t a probability for contamination. Furthermore, the system negates dangerous uncomfortable side effects of open-water aquaculture, like overfishing, by-catch of different animals like turtles, and coral reef destruction.
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Ng advised Insider that there’s hardly ever any contamination on the facility, and just a few tanks have been compromised in its historical past.
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The fishery makes use of six completely different programs to develop the fish, from egg incubation to “grow-out” throughout 54 tanks in a managed surroundings, that means the well being and welfare of the fish are monitored every single day till they’re prepared for harvesting.
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The corporate makes use of all-natural feed for the fish, which is dispersed from a rotating mechanism connected to the center of every tank, based on Ng.
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“The feed prices us much more, however we do not use GMOs in our farm, so we won’t construct all this and fall quick on the feed, in order that’s why we use all-natural,” Ng advised Insider.
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The fish are fed small meals all through the day so they don’t seem to be as hungry and are due to this fact much less aggressive throughout meal-time, which might trigger the fish to break one another, Ng defined.
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As a result of Hudson Valley Fisheries is environment-focused, 95% of water is reused all through the method and fish waste is saved and changed into natural fertilizer.
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As soon as the fish are totally grown, they’re harvested by hand on the facility. I toured this a part of the constructing the place I, together with all staff, was required to put on boots, a coat, a hair web, and a masks. These with facial hair needed to additionally put on a beard web.
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Staff, with the assistance of machines, pores and skin and lower the meat to the specified dimension, which relies on various factors like portion choice by the customer.
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Then, the meat is vacuum sealed and packed in insulated bins. The fish are then offered to farmer’s markets, eating places, and different firms, like Singapore.
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Contained in the harvesting part, I observed the absence of fish odor, which was stunning contemplating the operation. Furthermore, Ng defined that nothing goes to waste, so any undesirable components of the fish are composted, or offered to a pet meals producer.
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