Marco From United Arab Emirates, joined Jul 2000, 4161 posts, RR: 17 Posted (12 years 7 months 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 696 times:
Why does SIA fly only three times a week to Vancouver? Why don't they fly daily? CX flies twice daily and does really well on their flights and they use B744's! SIA uses A343...are they making money in YVR?
Louis From Canada, joined Oct 2005, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (12 years 7 months 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 648 times:
One of the CX flights continues on to New York. As well, there is a large expat Hong Kongese population in Vancouver, hence the need for two daily flights with 744 aircraft.
Remember, SIA used to fly into YVR with 743 aircraft, but downgraded to A340's a few years ago. I've heard that most of the passengers on this flight are destined for Seoul, not Singapore. SIA does have traffic rights for SEL-YVR. There just isn't that much traffic to Singapore from Canada as there is to Hong Kong. Maybe the lack of continuing passengers prevent this route from being upgraded to daily.
Are the making money? On the Seoul leg, you bet your ass they are! Any flight from North America to Seoul is jammed packed. SIA's is no exception. I tried in vain to book a flight to Seoul last summer and couldn't find anything from any North American departure point!
Louis From Canada, joined Oct 2005, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (12 years 7 months 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 639 times:
Don't forget, SIA codeshares with Air Canada now. AC already operate into Seoul four times a week. The three a week with SIA make it a daily flight. Same thing pretty much as sending your own aircraft in daily.
Polaris From Canada, joined Feb 2000, 1123 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (12 years 7 months 22 hours ago) and read 622 times:
Isn't there a restriction in the bilateral between Singapore and Canada that says that, at this time, there can be no more than 3 flights per week between Vancouver and Singapore?
Marco From United Arab Emirates, joined Jul 2000, 4161 posts, RR: 17 Reply 7, posted (12 years 6 months 4 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 549 times:
Is it a good thing or a bad thing that SIA are switching to a B772?
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