Is SIN-LHR-JFK still wanted by SQ?

[9V-SIA]

When I was growing up, there was a campaign by SQ to be given rights to fly between LHR and NYC.

I think they finally got it during Tony Blair's term in office.

Are they still interested?

If so, they should have bought the 6 slots BMI sold to BA

Then no need to speculate about SIN-FRA-JFK or SIN-TPE-JFK.

Good for *Alliance too

[Savage25]

Did they ever get those rights? I thought it was CX that got the LHR-JFK rights in exchange for VS getting HKG-SYD.

[9V-SIA]

I thought they did.

But it was a pyrrhic victory because there weren't any LHR slots to operate these flights

[9V-JKL]

It was part of the UK-SIN open skies agreement. We had a thread on it:
http://www.sqtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2433

[Guy Betsy]

I think that's one of the reasons why SQ bought 49% blindly into Virgin....

[9V-SIA]

It was part of the UK-SIN open skies agreement. We had a thread on it:
http://www.sqtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2433

Thanks for the link.

Strange why BD would sell to BA instead of *Alliance partner.

Available slots in LHR are as rare as hen's teeth. More so without 3rd runway in the foreseeable future

Add that to my wish list... SIN-LHR-JFK

http://www.sqtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10953

[stargold]

I think the problem is, regardless of quality of the airline, it's almost impossible to compete with just one flight per day when the others are operating 3-4 flights daily (or 10, in the case of BA!), offering high flexibility and capacity for business travellers.

It'd be very difficult to attract enough premium traffic to make LHR-JFK work on its own, as you can see from the deep discounts that SQ had to offer for FRA-JFK. And if they're not going to sell enough to sustain LHR-JFK by itself to a reasonable degree, then there's little point insisting on LHR over, say, FRA where you also have the benefit of excellent connections with LH.

So, I'd say that LHR-JFK is probably one of those things that look really good on paper, but in reality nowhere near the expectations.

[SINFJ]

In practicality, isn't this the reason why you don't see AC flying into SIN and opting to ocde-share with SQ on YVR>>>HKG>>>SIN ?

SQ should do just that