CX288 From Germany, joined Jan 2008, 142 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 10623 times:
Quoting Flying Belgian (Thread starter): According to what I've read on another website, SQ is to cancel the TPE-LAX flights from May 2008 onwards.
From what I know the frequency will be reduced on this route for the north hemisphere summer from 7 weekly to 4 weekly rotations. These flights are still in the GDS' and can be booked.
SQ452 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1053 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 10302 times:
Wow, kind of surprised by this. This route has been flown for..at least the last decade. And it has had quite a bit of history and aircraft operating it. From the 747-400 as SQ006 which tragically ended as we all remember, to the 772's replacing it as SQ28/27, to the upgrade of the route with the 777-300ER, to reduced frequencies to now nothing...
This flight will be missed. I am on it in a few weeks. One final go around on it for me!
Ssides From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 4059 posts, RR: 23 Reply 5, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 9904 times:
I flew this flight in September of 2006 (was actually flying LAX-TPE-SIN), and expected to see most pax terminate their journey at TPE. I was completely wrong -- I'd say more than 90% continued on to SIN.
PA110 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 1950 posts, RR: 26 Reply 7, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 9736 times:
I was told from SQ sources that they were looking at discontinuing SQ 27/28, but I also had a hard time believing it. Apparently the yields are just too low, and the dollar is too week to continue justifying the extra aircraft on this route. This is going to really disrupt the leisure market, but then again SQ has never really cared about the leisure market.
Norcal773 From United States of America, joined Feb 2007, 1280 posts, RR: 12 Reply 8, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 9627 times:
Wasn't this route being flown by the 77W up until about a month ago which was pulled for the 2nd ZRH daily? A shame really but ooh well!
Quoting SQ452 (Reply 3): This flight will be missed. I am on it in a few weeks. One final go around on it for me!
I was actually booked to fly it tomorrow on the 772 but since I cannot stand LAX, I changed to SQ1 from SFO instead. . A shame they'll axe this before I fly it although it looks like it's going from daily to 4X a week.
Vincewy From Taiwan, joined Oct 2005, 767 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 8575 times:
It will be missed, on the other hand it's a practical move, I suppose this will also help other 3 airlines, especially MH. I'm thinking if Singapore should negotiate with China rerouting this through PVG. China, in return, can get 5th freedom from Singapore to Africa, etc.
Norcal773 From United States of America, joined Feb 2007, 1280 posts, RR: 12 Reply 11, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 8109 times:
Quoting Ssides (Reply 9): Smart man. I wish I had booked my recent vacation to Southeast Asia via SFO instead of LAX. What a nightmare.
Absolutely right, it is a nightmare. I wasn't too fortunate though on my way back since it's an award ticket and I am stuck with the SIN-NRT-LAX flight. Ooh well!
GA330 From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 107 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 7894 times:
Quoting Ssides (Reply 5): I flew this flight in September of 2006 (was actually flying LAX-TPE-SIN), and expected to see most pax terminate their journey at TPE. I was completely wrong -- I'd say more than 90% continued on to SIN.
As far as I know, they are way too many airlines / frequencies that flies LAX-TPE, and with the prices that SQ charges for its flight, I dont think many people are willing to fly them just to go to TPE. Of course this is just my opinion, please correct me if I am wrong.
Airlines that does LAX-TPE as far as I know
BR SQ MH CI, totaling about 6-7x daily flight
Kanebear From United States of America, joined May 2002, 953 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 7836 times:
From a premium standpoint, which after all is what SQ focuses on, TPE is one of the lowest yield markets in the world. With the dollar dropping as it is, I'm not surprised at all to see them pull off. The fares aren't out of line for that market either. Coach may be, the J/F are right in line.
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21498 posts, RR: 24 Reply 15, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 7415 times:
Quoting Kanebear (Reply 13): From a premium standpoint, which after all is what SQ focuses on, TPE is one of the lowest yield markets in the world.
That's why AC dropped YVR-TPE several years ago and decided to leave the market to CI and BR which both operate nonstop YVR-TPE. AC codeshares on BR flights.
The aircraft is a relative dog on flights that don't push the C-market, and few of the latter such routes can produce the yield necessary to justify them.
Ex_SQer From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 1435 posts, RR: 6 Reply 17, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 7289 times:
A clarification for those talking about how long this route has been flown: SQ started TPE-LAX in 1982 or 1983, operating via HNL. The HNL stop was dropped in 1992, and equipment changed to 744. I think frequency went up to daily around 1994.
I don't know about how the route fared in the early days, but SQ struggled with yield on this route when I worked there, and this was due mostly to aggressive pricing from BR. SQ6/5 was, in fact, not profitable at that time. BR impacted SQ yield-wise not just on TPE-LAX but on many SE Asia-SFO/LAX city pairs. I imagine that yield improved when the 777 was placed on the route because lower pax capacity means that fewer seats have to be sold at rock bottom prices, but I do not know if the 777 brought the route into the black.
Before the introduction of the nonstop SIN-LAX vv service, one of the reasons why SQ never dropped TPE-LAX vv was because of connecting flights for LAX-originating paxs. On the westbound sectors, SQ11 via NRT arrives at 1am; too late for connections. So, SQ5 (or SQ29 or SQ27 as it was subsequently called) took up the slack for connecting traffic, especially for the India routes. If SQ6/5 had been dropped, the overall profitability of a number of other stations - notably LAX and India - would have been impacted.
SQ452 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1053 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (5 years 2 months 23 hours ago) and read 5854 times:
Quoting Norcal773 (Reply 8): Wasn't this route being flown by the 77W up until about a month ago which was pulled for the 2nd ZRH daily? A shame really but ooh well!
Correct, they operated 3 or 4 of the flights a week with the 77W back in January/December. I had the pleasure of flying on it then and it was quite a comfortable ride. The remainder of the flights for the week were 772 aircraft.
Amax1977 From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 194 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (5 years 2 months 20 hours ago) and read 5263 times:
Quoting Flying Belgian (Thread starter): According to what I've read on another website, SQ is to cancel the TPE-LAX flights from May 2008 onwards.
Noooooooooooooooo..... That was the flight that I met my wife on. For sure we will miss that flight
25 Ktachiya: Well on a positive side, you can sure feel special since the flight will be no more right? So you can hopefully keep it as memories. On the aviation
26 Flying Belgian: Many here stand correct. Frq reduced from may to oct. Route axed in oct. FB.
27 LACA773: With the discontinuation of this flight, is SQ going to bring in the 380 on SIN-NRT-LAX?
28 SFOHORIZON: I recently took a very extensive trip in Asia, mostly in business class, mostly on Star Alliance Carriers. SQ from TPE to LAX was by far the least cro
29 Anonms: I think it's just more like there's too many flights on that route. BR and CI have at least 2 flights a day AFAIK, then apparently MH also operates i
30 AF022: From what I can see, there are 45 weekly nonstops LAXTPE: BR, 20 CI, 14 MH, 7 SQ, 4 That is a lot of capacity!
31 Flyguy1: Well LA simply lose one SQ flight, or might they reroute it through another Asian city?
32 Copaair737: How many frequencies are there on SFO-TPE? IIRC, BR, CI, and UA fly the route right?
33 Anonms: CI has 1 daily, I think BR has 10 weekly (albeit using Combis last time I flew them). Dunno about UA.
34 Carfield: Well I think SQ maintains 27/28 for a long time because of the good timing of the flight and allowing many good connections for folks traveling to and
35 Joemac547: It can't be a coincidence that they pull the plug on this flight in October just as they are scheduled to get another A380. And, of course, it would
36 Norcal773: Not really. The next SQ A380 will be flying SIN-NRT-SIN and not continuing on to LAX. I believe the flight are even loaded onto the SQ website. If I
37 Joemac547: My thinking was that since SQ is getting one more A380 airframe in October that SQ would add this to the existing SIN-NRT route, so this single new A3
38 Norcal773: That makes sense actually but I think insiders at SQ say SQ 1 would be the first N.America route to get the A380. They could be wrong of-course. Both
39 CHANGYOU: SIN-PVG-LAX been rumoured for ages. Or are we getting some good news from down under anytime soon?
40 Norcal773: I thought the Australian government would have none of this although not too many people would be eager to do SIN-SYD-LAX!
41 SQ452: 2 A380's each, for a total of four...still have to wait till we have those numbers in their fleet.
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