<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/aerokiwi" class="quote" target="_blank">aerokiwi</a> (<a href="#42" class="quote">Reply 42</a>):<br/><i>Boom. There it is. Which raises the ques...
Jump to postThank you very much for a well written trip report, with just the right amount of detail and photos. It must have taken you a long time. I did think that 2 full meals on <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym> <acronym title="Melbourne - Tullamarine (MEL / YMML), Au...
Jump to postVery nice report. I notice Australians are very thingy about using cameras/mobile phones on planes. When I was flying from <acronym title="Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) - Tan Son Nhat (SGN / VVTS), Vietnam">SGN</acronym> to <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym> on Jet...
Jump to postBack in 1998, There were 10 weekly services <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym>-<acronym title="Christchurch - International (CHC / NZCH), New Zealand">CHC</acronym> - 7 by <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acronym> and 3 by <acronym title="Singapore Airlines...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/trent1000" class="quote" target="_blank">trent1000</a> (<a href="#174" class="quote">Reply 174</a>):<br/><i>Obviously <acronym title="Qantas (Au...
Jump to postThe only route cut seems to be PERSIN. All Australia-<acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym> services to be operated by A330s. <acronym title="Melbourne - Tullamarine (MEL / YMML), Australia - Victoria">MEL</acronym> <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), U...
Jump to postQF is doing with Jetstar Asia what they are accusing <acronym title="Singapore Airlines">SQ</acronym> <acronym title="Etihad Airways (United Arab Emirates)">EY</acronym> and <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acronym> of doing in VA. Except that VA's decisions are all made in Australia, their fare...
Jump to postDoes anyone know how Air Asia's franchises in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines work? I'm not sure Qantas/Jetstar have that much goodwill left in Singapore. They did not get extra rights in the latest Indonesia-Singapore bilateral. Tiger Singapore is now almost double their size. The...
Jump to postQantas definitely controls Jetstar Asia, so <acronym title="Cathay Pacific (China-Hong Kong)">CX</acronym> is not entirely wrong in saying that the ownership structure of Jetstar <acronym title="Four Star Aviation (US Virgin Is.)">HK</acronym> is meant to sidestep local laws. Singapore blessed the s...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/MillwallSean" class="quote" target="_blank">MillwallSean</a> (<a href="#81" class="quote">Reply 81</a>):<br/><i> HongKong is a professionally ru...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/lutfi" class="quote" target="_blank">lutfi</a> (<a href="#76" class="quote">Reply 76</a>):<br/><i>Air China own 29.99% of Cathay, which is worth...
Jump to postHowever it does not seem that even Hong Kong Airport is very keen on the idea <a href="http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?art_id=140925&con_type=1" target="_blank">http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?art_id=140925&con_type=1</a> Hong Kong already has millions of mainland...
Jump to postThe difference between Singapore and Hong Kong is, in 2003, Singapore was so afraid of missing out on the LCC boom they rushed to welcome <acronym title="Qantas (Australia)">QF</acronym> in through Jetstar Asia and Temasek was an initial investor in the company (their proxies + them owned 45%). Even...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jupiter2" class="quote" target="_blank">jupiter2</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>So we can safely assume from this that <ac...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PA515" class="quote" target="_blank">PA515</a> (<a href="#89" class="quote">Reply 89</a>):<br/><i>For <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acron...
Jump to postI just realised that westbound, <acronym title="Qantas (Australia)">QF</acronym> only flies 106 times a week to 7 Asian destinations, 1 Middle East, 1 European and 1 African destination: <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym> 35x a week <acronym title="CURRENT: Hon...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Lufthansa" class="quote" target="_blank">Lufthansa</a> (<a href="#75" class="quote">Reply 75</a>):<br/><i>We haven't even seen the worst yet of ...
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Jump to postSQ21 seems to be taking the polar route rather than going over the Atlantic, Europe, India towards SIN?
Jump to postSQ's EWRSIN had an average 75% load factor, so there was significant demand for them. It is a bit silly for <acronym title="Singapore Airlines">SQ</acronym> to give up 75 J pax a day to <acronym title="Newark - Liberty International (EWR / KEWR), USA - New Jersey">EWR</acronym> and 70 J pax a day to...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Sydscott" class="quote" target="_blank">Sydscott</a> (<a href="#105" class="quote">Reply 105</a>):<br/><i>In relation to Virgin, <acronym title=...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/sydscott" class="quote" target="_blank">sydscott</a> (<a href="#29" class="quote">Reply 29</a>):<br/><i>It would also be really interesting to s...
Jump to postHmmm can they use the same company who created www.thelengthswegoto.com to redesign singaporeair.com??
Jump to postVery nice report! Scoot's premium meals almost look like <acronym title="Singapore Airlines">SQ</acronym> economy, also very nice pictures of your trip! I've lived in Australia before (Sydney specifically) - it is lovely when you're on holiday, but a different story if you live and work there.I alwa...
Jump to postThe full ads are now here <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/singaporeair/thelengthswegoto" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/user/singaporeair/thelengthswegoto</a> Actually I think they're beautifully executed. And the Singapore girl is everywhere, she hardly took a back seat. However I thin...
Jump to postNZ's performance is more remarkable, because it's off a lower revenue base. Being a much smaller airline and making the same as QF is a very worthy performance.
Jump to postWas she even downgraded? She's in every scene just about.
Jump to postLooking at the first ad here (and I find it too soft)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIz27KKEsIY
The Singapore Girl is everywhere
SIA announced that they were the official airline of the Venice FIlm Festival. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151843854413679&id=6352578678 They will be rolling out a brand new ad campaign this week, and there are snippets of it here <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Coal" class="quote" target="_blank">Coal</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i>Also, any chance this A380 might go to <acronym ...
Jump to postSQ will not be launching additional flights to <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> and <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym> - ridiculous considering Americas load factor i...
Jump to postActually - if you want to speak to someone in Singapore, click the Mandarin option. It will route you to someone in Singapore, then ask to speak in English if you prefer. That's the trick to never getting routed to India, if you want to avoid that.
Jump to postCalls from Singapore (regardless of status) are routed to Singapore. Calls from outside Singapore are routed to India. Calls for PPS everywhere in the world are routed to Singapore. So basic rules: 1. If you call from Singapore, you get to a Singapore centre 2. If you are PPS and call from overseas ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/angmoh" class="quote" target="_blank">angmoh</a> (<a href="#70" class="quote">Reply 70</a>):<br/><i>No disagreement here. I don't expect the lic...
Jump to postActually the pioneers of <acronym title="Xian - Xiguan (SIA / ZLXG) (closed), China">SIA</acronym> were mostly Malaysian Chinese and Indians who built <acronym title="Xian - Xiguan (SIA / ZLXG) (closed), China">SIA</acronym> up from the 1970s to 1990s. Cheong Choon Kong was from Malaysia as was the ...
Jump to postI think the 76 "expat" pilots are not non Singaporeans but those who are employed on expat contracts which include housing and transport allowances etc. Non Singaporeans who are employed on local terms where they're just paid a lump sum salary are not considered as being under an expat contract. So ...
Jump to postThe company which provides maintenance services to Delta in <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym> is Singapore Technologies Engineering, not <acronym title="Xian - Xiguan (SIA / ZLXG) (closed), China">SIA</acronym> Engineering. I'd be interested to know how long m...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PanHAM" class="quote" target="_blank">PanHAM</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>Apply the <acronym title="Singapore Airlines">...
Jump to postI must say the general vibe of the forum back then was quite different. Singapore_Air and most of us were teenagers then. I still remember how Singapore_Air used to post every single pointless <acronym title="Xian - Xiguan (SIA / ZLXG) (closed), China">SIA</acronym> related article <img src="h...
Jump to postCan the veterans of this forum believe it has been 10 years since this speculative trip report was written?
Jump to postSQ paid GBP600 mil in 1999 - at GBP <acronym title="Sonderborg (SGD / EKSB), Denmark">SGD</acronym> exchange rates then it cost SGD1.8 bil (Today it would be SGD1.2 bil) Today they sold it at GBP360 mil - at current USD <acronym title="Sonderborg (SGD / EKSB), Denmark">SGD</acronym> exchange rates i...
Jump to postSQ paid GBP600 mil when the GBP:SGD rate was 1:3 so they paid SGD1.8 bil
They sell it for US$360 mil, which is SGD 432 mil
OUCH.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/qf002" class="quote" target="_blank">qf002</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>If our dollar plummets (unlikely IMO), then you'...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/themit9" class="quote" target="_blank">themit9</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>You see my point based on the above, althoug...
Jump to postI was due to travel in J on SINDXB but for due to a series of service lapses I experienced on <acronym title="Xian - Xiguan (SIA / ZLXG) (closed), China">SIA</acronym>, they upgraded me to First Class. Trust me, <acronym title="Xian - Xiguan (SIA / ZLXG) (closed), China">SIA</acronym> does not usual...
Jump to postVery nice report - I flew almost the same sectors but slightly up the front <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/> The Y catering looks quite substandard compared to <acronym title="Singapore Airlines">SQ</acronym>...
Jump to postI rarely write trip reports these days as work requires me to be on a plane at least once a week. This year, I have been on so many flights, most on <acronym title="Xian - Xiguan (SIA / ZLXG) (closed), China">SIA</acronym>. Same routes – <acronym title="Dubai - International (DXB / OMDB), United Ara...
Jump to postCX is the most natural choice for <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acronym>. <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acronym> fly daily into <acronym title="CURRENT: Hong Kong - Chek Lap Kok International (HKG / VHHH), China - Hong Kong AND OLD: Hong Kong - Kai Tak International (HKG / VHHH) (close...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tullamarine" class="quote" target="_blank">tullamarine</a> (<a href="#63" class="quote">Reply 63</a>):<br/><i>In reality, Skywest is a Singapore...
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