True, current airframes are capable of doing long-haul fights in one go; and making the experience a lot more comfortable.

My experience of long-haul travel was made mostly in the '80s and '90s, here the air frames I flew on were Boeing 707s, 727, 737, 747 and 757s. An occasional Lockheed Tristar, Airbus A320 and several Russian craft: Ilyushin; Tupolevs and Antonovs. Travel on the Noughties have been done using more modern air frames; whose identity I neglected to note. apart from a Boeing 777 ot two.

The weirdest flight I ever made was an internal flight in Laos in an old Soviet (SU8?) cargo helcopter. Oh, and once for an internal flight in Uzbekistan on some propeller driven plane, where in order to calculate the amount of fuel required not only was the baggage weighed, but so too the passengers.