Also, a $900 premium for business class on a Singapore Airlines trans-Pacific flight doesn't sound right either. Plus their business class has (gigantic) lie-flat seats.
He may have been referring to a non-direct flight with an Atlantic route? eg, going Seattle to Chennai will be ~24 hours of travel either via Frankfurt or Dubai.
Thinking of the magic of flight in broad strokes, I can see how you'd call that going across the Pacific, just not quite literally.