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Ok I was recently on Orbitiz looking up airline tickets from Atlanta to Tokyo. Well the cheapest ones were about 995 bucks. That was expected.

However on a closer inspection I see that it says the flight is only 12 hours and non-stop. NON-STOP?! Yea right? Maybe if I chartered a B-52. Not only that but I also found what type of plane it was supposed to be on. They named a McDonald Dougles design that was retired from all airlines about 3 years ago. WTF? Is there no accurate, non-BS travel sits?

I've been on several flights that have been 12+ hours or more...the longest non-stop flight I was on was 16 hours...

I did a search also on Orbitz and came up with Delta non-stop in an MD-11. If that's the plane you are talking about, they have not been retired. In fact they are going to be flown for probably 20 more years. The MD-11 was first built in 1986, so it's not very old at all, although they stopped production in 2001. FedEx uses MD-11's (along with the almost identical MD-10 and DC-10) for its primary aircraft. About 30 or 40 fly in a day here in Indianapolis. And an MD-11 DOES have the range to fly from Atlanta to Tokyo non-stop.

I recently flew to the Philipines, and the flights went from Detroit, to Tokyo, to Manilla. So, it's very common to have non stop flights to Japan.