qantas330 wrote:

Does anyone know if 9v-skq is planned to be returned to service?

I believe it is the last one at ASP that will return to service when SKP is done?

https://aeroroutes.com/eng/220630-sqnw22yvr

SIN-YVR now open for booking in NW22/23.

ZK-NBT wrote:

https://aeroroutes.com/eng/220630-sqnw22yvr

SIN-YVR now open for booking in NW22/23.

If YVR is successful this winter as it was this summer, they might as well make it year round.
On a side note, LAX-SIN nonstop increases to 14x weekly (up from 10x weekly) effective 11/30/2022. LAX capacity will exceed pre-downturn levels. This surprises me since in 2019, SQ was preparing to drop SQ35/36 for NW20. Now it's going daily.
It was on Aeroroutes schedule update today.

ZK-NBT wrote:

https://aeroroutes.com/eng/220630-sqnw22yvr

SIN-YVR now open for booking in NW22/23.

My guess is, SQ is trying to attract connecting traffic to India, Thailand and Malaysia, with mainland China/HK locked down for the foreseeable future and Taiwan closed to travel.

Recently flew IAH-MAN-SIN-MAN-IAH for work as well as SIN-BLR-SIN for a quick trip to see family. All of this was on A359s. The J cabins were fairly full on all flights so those routes seem to be doing fairly well for them. MAN-SIN and SIN-MAN in particular seemed like very full flights. Weirdly I think I like their 1-2-1 regional business class seat more than the weird long haul one they use on the IAH flight. I have no problems with the fold over lie flat but the offset, narrow footrest is very uncomfortable for taller people. The IFE touchscreen on the regional seat was also better in every way than the non touchscreen, lower resolution one on their long haul product. They should really consider making the new regional business class seat standard on all long haul flights.

SQ North America load factor June 2022 is very good at 91.8%. That means Seattle and Vancouver direct are performing ok.

https://www.singaporeair.com/saar5/pdf/ ... -jun22.pdf

ZRH, CDG, AKL have all changed from showing A380 to 77W for the NW. CDG will be 2x daily 77W, ZRH 1x and AKL daily 77W plus 4 weekly A359.

Overall A380 service looks like from what I can see a little light for 12 aircraft.

LHR x14, 3 aircraft
FRA-JFK x7, 3 aircraft
SYD x7, 1 aircraft
DEL x7, 1 aircraft
BOM x7, 1 aircraft

SQ32 wrote:

SQ North America load factor June 2022 is very good at 91.8%. That means Seattle and Vancouver direct are performing ok.

https://www.singaporeair.com/saar5/pdf/ ... -jun22.pdf

Good loads all around there, East Asia is a little low but I guess has a lot of capacity to fill.

Freight load factors are much lower this year, does this take into account just the freighter fleet or does it include belly space on Pax fleet aswell?

ZK-NBT wrote:

Freight load factors are much lower this year, does this take into account just the freighter fleet or does it include belly space on Pax fleet aswell?

This includes both freighter and bellyhold cargo capacity. Singapore Airlines Cargo manages cargo capacity and sales across Singapore Airlines, Singapore Airlines Cargo and Scoot aircraft.

ZK-NBT wrote:

ZRH, CDG, AKL have all changed from showing A380 to 77W for the NW. CDG will be 2x daily 77W, ZRH 1x and AKL daily 77W plus 4 weekly A359.

Overall A380 service looks like from what I can see a little light for 12 aircraft.

LHR x14, 3 aircraft
FRA-JFK x7, 3 aircraft
SYD x7, 1 aircraft
DEL x7, 1 aircraft
BOM x7, 1 aircraft

I thought at the moment there are only 9 active and the last 3 are not yet returned to service?

SInGAPORE_AIR wrote:

ZK-NBT wrote:

Freight load factors are much lower this year, does this take into account just the freighter fleet or does it include belly space on Pax fleet aswell?

This includes both freighter and bellyhold cargo capacity. Singapore Airlines Cargo manages cargo capacity and sales across Singapore Airlines, Singapore Airlines Cargo and Scoot aircraft.

The only 2 airlines are Singapore Airlines and Scoot. Singapore Airlines Cargo no longer exists as a separate carrier: they are integrated into Singapore airlines. Singapore Airlines Cargo is purely the handler now.

In May SIA reported a big drop in freight load factors and it was attributed in full due to a largo amount in belly space on pax flight being added to capacity. In volume the total amount of freight did not drop. So it is the combined fleet. I think most of the capacity added was on Scoot.

AngMoh wrote:

ZK-NBT wrote:

ZRH, CDG, AKL have all changed from showing A380 to 77W for the NW. CDG will be 2x daily 77W, ZRH 1x and AKL daily 77W plus 4 weekly A359.

Overall A380 service looks like from what I can see a little light for 12 aircraft.

LHR x14, 3 aircraft
FRA-JFK x7, 3 aircraft
SYD x7, 1 aircraft
DEL x7, 1 aircraft
BOM x7, 1 aircraft

I thought at the moment there are only 9 active and the last 3 are not yet returned to service?

10 active I think, should be 11 by NW with SKP being refitted now and just SKQ left at ASP. That schedule should use 9.

AngMoh wrote:

SInGAPORE_AIR wrote:

ZK-NBT wrote:

Freight load factors are much lower this year, does this take into account just the freighter fleet or does it include belly space on Pax fleet aswell?

This includes both freighter and bellyhold cargo capacity. Singapore Airlines Cargo manages cargo capacity and sales across Singapore Airlines, Singapore Airlines Cargo and Scoot aircraft.

The only 2 airlines are Singapore Airlines and Scoot. Singapore Airlines Cargo no longer exists as a separate carrier: they are integrated into Singapore airlines. Singapore Airlines Cargo is purely the handler now.

In May SIA reported a big drop in freight load factors and it was attributed in full due to a largo amount in belly space on pax flight being added to capacity. In volume the total amount of freight did not drop. So it is the combined fleet. I think most of the capacity added was on Scoot.

Right oh thanks, Scoot probably don’t carry so much freight?

I have a question about the SIN-YVR schedule.

Why is the departure time from SIN to YVR at 7AM? Both SEA and SFO depart around 9AM in the morning. The 7AM departure to YVR seems kind of too early. Maybe I'm wrong, I just wonder about the timing since it is before the departure bank starting around 9AM to North America that SEA and SFO are in.

ZK-NBT wrote:

ZRH, CDG, AKL have all changed from showing A380 to 77W for the NW. CDG will be 2x daily 77W, ZRH 1x and AKL daily 77W plus 4 weekly A359.

Overall A380 service looks like from what I can see a little light for 12 aircraft.

LHR x14, 3 aircraft
FRA-JFK x7, 3 aircraft
SYD x7, 1 aircraft
DEL x7, 1 aircraft
BOM x7, 1 aircraft

And 1-weekly PVG pax flight (SQ830/833) has been switched to A388 ops, not sure if this will continue to winter

Michael

eamondzhang wrote:

ZK-NBT wrote:

ZRH, CDG, AKL have all changed from showing A380 to 77W for the NW. CDG will be 2x daily 77W, ZRH 1x and AKL daily 77W plus 4 weekly A359.

Overall A380 service looks like from what I can see a little light for 12 aircraft.

LHR x14, 3 aircraft
FRA-JFK x7, 3 aircraft
SYD x7, 1 aircraft
DEL x7, 1 aircraft
BOM x7, 1 aircraft

And 1-weekly PVG pax flight (SQ830/833) has been switched to A388 ops, not sure if this will continue to winter

Michael

I want aware of that, still showing A380 in December, not sure if it’s updated yet

ZK-NBT wrote:

ZRH, CDG, AKL have all changed from showing A380 to 77W for the NW. CDG will be 2x daily 77W, ZRH 1x and AKL daily 77W plus 4 weekly A359.

Wow thats an amazing increase for CDG. Pre covid we only ever got daily 77W and 3x A359 I believe when the A388 was removed.
Double daily 77W is more capacity than we ever had. Miss the A388 though.

FromCDGtoSYD wrote:

ZK-NBT wrote:

ZRH, CDG, AKL have all changed from showing A380 to 77W for the NW. CDG will be 2x daily 77W, ZRH 1x and AKL daily 77W plus 4 weekly A359.

Wow thats an amazing increase for CDG. Pre covid we only ever got daily 77W and 3x A359 I believe when the A388 was removed.
Double daily 77W is more capacity than we ever had. Miss the A388 though.

According to SQ schedule or should I say press release if will be 12x weekly for CDG, bit hard to read their schedules, sorry for any confusion.

CDG had 10x 77W iirc after the 744 then went daily A380, been what a seasonal NS A380 for a while before covid right?

ZK-NBT wrote:

qantas330 wrote:

Does anyone know if 9v-skq is planned to be returned to service?

I believe it is the last one at ASP that will return to service when SKP is done?

Thanks for the information

SIA reports second highest quarterly operating profit ever:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/busines ... es-2841921

Great news at this time in Asia.

Just returned from SIN on Tuesday and noticed 3 active a380’s at the terminal. A little further away along East Coast Parkway was the a380 being scrapped with 4 additional a380’s adjacent in a row. These four appeared inactive - too far to be active IMO. Anyone know their status?

Not sure which reg you saw. As far as I know SQ will return 12 to service. All refurb / latest config. The others will depart. Can anyone confirm this?

NZ321 wrote:

Not sure which reg you saw. As far as I know SQ will return 12 to service. All refurb / latest config. The others will depart. Can anyone confirm this?

Current. That is from a fleet of 19, not sure if 7 are being scrapped in SIN or if some of those will fly out.

A collaboration with The Pokemon Company will see Scoot launch its newly repainted Pikachu Jet on designated flights to Tokyo Narita and Seoul starting September 9, as part of Scoot's 10th anniversary celebrations.

B787-9 9V-OJJ has been repainted with a Pokemon themed livery. The aircraft will rotate through the Scoot network on regular flights outside of the scheduled Pokemon themed flights.

Scoot launching Pikachu-themed aircraft to Tokyo & Seoul from Sep. 9, 2022

I always appreciate the effort many Far East carriers make in offering various special themed aircraft.

SQ becomes the first Asian airline to scrap mask mandate on selected routes. Flights to and from the States will be mask free. Finally, who wants to wear a mask on a 19 hour flight!

https://mainlymiles.com/2022/08/25/singapore-airlines-scraps-mask-mandate-on-selected-routes/?fbclid=IwAR0M0xakBP-Njj_9cnVuIDUeIPFz1mzlFtPg58YoXETFO7dIqraqq9Ju0sE

Singapore YVR timing is quite peculiar. All SQ North American west coast morning flight depart at around 0900. The YVR departs early. YVR flight will be missing a lot of regional feed.

SQ48
SIN 07:00
YVR 06:45

SQ47
YVR 08:35
SIN 15:40+1

SQ32 wrote:

Singapore YVR timing is quite peculiar. All SQ North American west coast morning flight depart at around 0900. The YVR departs early. YVR flight will be missing a lot of regional feed.

SQ48
SIN 07:00
YVR 06:45

SQ47
YVR 08:35
SIN 15:40+1

I reckon its possible that the YVR Route actually depends more on feed to/from Indian destinations and local P2P hence SQ finds this timing works for them.

airtropolis wrote:

SQ32 wrote:

Singapore YVR timing is quite peculiar. All SQ North American west coast morning flight depart at around 0900. The YVR departs early. YVR flight will be missing a lot of regional feed.

SQ48
SIN 07:00
YVR 06:45

SQ47
YVR 08:35
SIN 15:40+1

I reckon its possible that the YVR Route actually depends more on feed to/from Indian destinations and local P2P hence SQ finds this timing works for them.

Sarcasm rules OR I think you need a lesson or two in geography. Honestly, one of the most off the planet comments I've read this year. Let's talk when you've finished cracking up or done your homework! lol

NZ321 wrote:

airtropolis wrote:

SQ32 wrote:

Singapore YVR timing is quite peculiar. All SQ North American west coast morning flight depart at around 0900. The YVR departs early. YVR flight will be missing a lot of regional feed.

SQ48
SIN 07:00
YVR 06:45

SQ47
YVR 08:35
SIN 15:40+1

I reckon its possible that the YVR Route actually depends more on feed to/from Indian destinations and local P2P hence SQ finds this timing works for them.

Sarcasm rules OR I think you need a lesson or two in geography. Honestly, one of the most off the planet comments I've read this year. Let's talk when you've finished cracking up or done your homework! lol

??? SQ (and CX for that matter) is known to fly a lot of connections between India and North America, particularly west coast, despite the detour, even from before COVID years.....

And the detour is not as large as you thought, or otherwise AI wouldn't have flown DEL-SFO eastbound during much of the year.....

Michael

eamondzhang wrote:

NZ321 wrote:

airtropolis wrote:

I reckon its possible that the YVR Route actually depends more on feed to/from Indian destinations and local P2P hence SQ finds this timing works for them.

Sarcasm rules OR I think you need a lesson or two in geography. Honestly, one of the most off the planet comments I've read this year. Let's talk when you've finished cracking up or done your homework! lol

??? SQ (and CX for that matter) is known to fly a lot of connections between India and North America, particularly west coast, despite the detour, even from before COVID years.....

And the detour is not as large as you thought, or otherwise AI wouldn't have flown DEL-SFO eastbound during much of the year.....

Michael

People need to study geography more: from BLR and MAA as well as cities further south like Trichy and Trivandrum, the best route is over SIN. From these cities to DEL is a 3 hr flight and a messy transfer while SIN is a 4hr flight and a simple transfer followed by a shorter flight to SFO/LAX than from DEL. Every time I fly the morning non-stop SIN-SFO, the majority of pax are Indians originating from India. Indian vegetarian meals are served first as it serves the majority of pax, and once they are served, the rest of the passengers are served the standard meals. That said, a 7am flight to YVR is probably too tight for a number of Indian pax, as many flights from India arrive between 5-7am (BLR, MAA and TRV are 6:10am while Trichy is 6:50am).

The sheer size of India is generally underestimated.

AngMoh wrote:

eamondzhang wrote:

NZ321 wrote:

Sarcasm rules OR I think you need a lesson or two in geography. Honestly, one of the most off the planet comments I've read this year. Let's talk when you've finished cracking up or done your homework! lol

??? SQ (and CX for that matter) is known to fly a lot of connections between India and North America, particularly west coast, despite the detour, even from before COVID years.....

And the detour is not as large as you thought, or otherwise AI wouldn't have flown DEL-SFO eastbound during much of the year.....

Michael

People need to study geography more: from BLR and MAA as well as cities further south like Trichy and Trivandrum, the best route is over SIN. From these cities to DEL is a 3 hr flight and a messy transfer while SIN is a 4hr flight and a simple transfer followed by a shorter flight to SFO/LAX than from DEL. Every time I fly the morning non-stop SIN-SFO, the majority of pax are Indians originating from India. Indian vegetarian meals are served first as it serves the majority of pax, and once they are served, the rest of the passengers are served the standard meals. That said, a 7am flight to YVR is probably too tight for a number of Indian pax, as many flights from India arrive between 5-7am (BLR, MAA and TRV are 6:10am while Trichy is 6:50am).

The sheer size of India is generally underestimated.

You still haven’t explained what it was that was wrong about the previous comment - he didn’t say all Indian connections via Delhi, did he?

Ideally, SQ48/47 would have to depart atleast 1-2 hours later than their current schedule to maximize all Indian connections from SQ/TR.

AngMoh wrote:

People need to study geography more: from BLR and MAA as well as cities further south like Trichy and Trivandrum, the best route is over SIN.

Not just from south, but from the whole country the eastern route is faster. Hence, pre-pandemic the eastern carriers dominated the India- East coast N.A traffic (LAX, SFO, YVR), as was better in terms of duration, price, and ofcourse quality of service.

Regarding the feed for this particular, it connects beautifully to Amritsar (Punjab), which would have the most traffic from India to YVR. One random dummy search, and my guess was right, the ATQ-SIN-YVR was the the cheapest and second fastest (after AI via DEL) option. So this flight seems to target ATQ, with the Scoot-SQ combo option.

SQ32 wrote:

Singapore YVR timing is quite peculiar. All SQ North American west coast morning flight depart at around 0900. The YVR departs early. YVR flight will be missing a lot of regional feed.

SQ48
SIN 07:00
YVR 06:45

SQ47
YVR 08:35
SIN 15:40+1

I kind of thought the same thing. Would love to know what specific destinations feed this market, since it has a much earlier departure than the other North American flights. Don't really know what Indian flights arrive at SIN early enough to connect to a 7AM departure to YVR.

I was on SQ241 the 7:15am departure to Sydney and was surprised by the number of indians on the flight (about 80%). The flight attendants were running around with stacks of vegetarian meals, way more than they usually would.

Don’t underestimate the AM bank from India.

Is there a reason why YVR seasonal service keeps getting extended and not made into year round service? Does SQ still see YVR as a more temporary destination? They did seem to out AC if that was the original intent as AC has chosen BKK with a 789

3D101CA wrote:

SQ32 wrote:

Singapore YVR timing is quite peculiar. All SQ North American west coast morning flight depart at around 0900. The YVR departs early. YVR flight will be missing a lot of regional feed.

SQ48
SIN 07:00
YVR 06:45

SQ47
YVR 08:35
SIN 15:40+1

I kind of thought the same thing. Would love to know what specific destinations feed this market, since it has a much earlier departure than the other North American flights. Don't really know what Indian flights arrive at SIN early enough to connect to a 7AM departure to YVR.

Could this have to do with gate restrictions/capacity at SIN as 9am is a rush hour time with all the regional flights and 6-7hours flight all departing at this time? Virtually all of SQ’s destinations have a morning departure aside from Europe (except a few European cities). It may also be because YVR is a seasonal route and intially launched when Singapore opened its browser to Canadian travellers so the larger may have intially been geared more so towards O&D. They might suspect that once other airlines restore service in YVR, they will no longer be as competitive anymore at YVR and hence unwilling to give up a precious gate space. In addition, for people having to do an overnight transfer for YVR flights they probably don’t have much better alternatives anyways unlike the US cities since YVR is not served by the gulf carriers

YVR may be the least lucrative of them all so it gets an. “Inferior” slot.

Also, what time was the departure when it was tagged with Seattle.

I think also some YVR traffic may be using the SEA flight or the other West Coast bound one. I have had people fly on the SEA route and told me many people were actually going to YVR and apprently going via SEA was cheaper than YVR over the summer

andrew1996 wrote:

They might suspect that once other airlines restore service in YVR, they will no longer be as competitive anymore at YVR and hence unwilling to give up a precious gate space.

It would be a shame if they ended up dropping the SIN-YVR service due to lost competitiveness, after other East Asian carriers resume YVR flights (e.g. the Chinese ones).

planemanofnz wrote:

andrew1996 wrote:

They might suspect that once other airlines restore service in YVR, they will no longer be as competitive anymore at YVR and hence unwilling to give up a precious gate space.

It would be a shame if they ended up dropping the SIN-YVR service due to lost competitiveness, after other East Asian carriers resume YVR flights (e.g. the Chinese ones).

They don’t seem committed to yvr. It’s still a seasonal route that keeps getting extended by another season. I don’t think SQ has ever really launched a new route by doing it seasonal and then renewing it for another season. I think they are getting a lot of the former CI, BR , and CX transit traffic.

FromCDGtoSYD wrote:

I was on SQ241 the 7:15am departure to Sydney and was surprised by the number of indians on the flight (about 80%). The flight attendants were running around with stacks of vegetarian meals, way more than they usually would.

Don’t underestimate the AM bank from India.

By 6:20am, nine SQ or TR flights have arrived from the subcontinent. This is where the passengers are coming from. Hubs like SIN handle different demographics at different times of the day. So the morning flights to Australia/NZ generally have more passengers from Europe and the subcontinent, while the evening flights to Australia/NZ generally have more passengers from Asia.

SQ will remove A380s from North America. Will replace with 77W on SIN-FRA-JFK route effective May.

Will utilize A380s on shorter Far East markets and Australia. MEL A380 service to be reintroduced in May, while an additional SYD service will be upgaged to A380 also.

https://www.flightglobal.com/airlines/s ... 59.article

SQ Timetable Update for Northern Summer 2023

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221123-sqns23

Some Notes and observations:
1. Busan is back with a MAX! (I think former MI route)
2. Frankfurt will be a daily 77W and 359 each
3. Manchester still 5 weekly, 3 extends to Houston
4. Manila 4 daily 787-10, maximizing slots at the congested airport, wondering what's SQ strategy here in a few years, adding a 5th daily flight or let Scoot handle the rest (Scoot barely grew at MNL).

Scoot joins IATA




https://asianaviation.com/scoot-becomes ... r-of-iata/

Signs MOU with Thai to forge new "strategic partnership"

https://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/us/m ... 122-221202

Initially seems to be deeper codesharing as carriers explore more wide-ranging commercial collaboration

I have noticed that the typical 1 hour connecting time for connections through SIN is no longer reliable these past few months; so why is it still bookable? I note that SQ on-time performance seems to have slipped to well below that usually expected. Curious to know, what % of this is due to Covid related staffing shortages, and what % of these delays are actually caused by construction and extended taxiing delays due to the requirement that most departing flights use the new runway 3?

Singapore looking at Embraer 195E2 for Scoot with potential order of 50-frames

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... e-air-unit

A bit of a model shift coming to Scoot?

Quite a step down from Scoot smallest aircraft, 180-seat A320s.

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