A350 Deliveries and Routes

[flyguy]

I hope Hanoi route would be replaced by the A350-900 Regional soon....

Vietnam Airlines will be flying its A350 with lie-flat biz class eats from late March from Ho Chi Minh to Changi.

[9V-SKU]

Thanks God.

Finally some good news for ICN!

[pokfur]

I hope Hanoi route would be replaced by the A350-900 Regional soon....

I hope so too! But I have low hopes. I believe Hanoi and Saigon kept the old Ultimo seats 772 till quite late before switching to the A330

[ninervictor]

I hope Hanoi route would be replaced by the A350-900 Regional soon....

[SQ228]

What about the A330's? From time to time, more A330's have been leaving as their leases have ended as opposed to the 777's.

What about them??? The discussion was regarding the A350 overtaking the 777 to become the largest component of the SQ fleet. It's being discussed in the A350 thread. The A330 is NOT relevant to this. If you ever bothered to scroll up three or four posts before replying this would make sense!!! #@&$!!!

[SQfanatic]

Yes the A350 should be the largest fleet by this year, but the 772s are still not going away fast enough.

What about the A330's? From time to time, more A330's have been leaving as their leases have ended as opposed to the 777's.

[flyguy]

Yes the A350 should be the largest fleet by this year, but the 772s are still not going away fast enough.

[SQ228]

9V-SHC has landed at Changi bringing the SQ A350-900 fleet to 31.

2019 will probably be the year we see A350s outnumber B777s.

[SQKevin]

9V-SHC has landed at Changi bringing the SQ A350-900 fleet to 31.

[SQKevin]

9V-SHC has taken off on her Delivery Flight as SQ8895. She is expected to arrive at Changi at 7.30pm (local time) today.

[SQKevin]

Yesterday....

SHC had her 1st CAF
SHD had her 1st flight

9V-SHC performing her CAF.



9V-SHD on her way to her First Flight.


Photo source: a350 production.net

[SQKevin]

9V-SHC is displaying her Final Registration. Delivery should take place this weekend.

[SQ228]

Didn't they have only 5 of the A345 and also had 2 nonstop destinations?

Yes, they had 5 A345s for 2 non-stop destinations, correct. But each of those destinations only needed two planes to cover it on a daily basis. EWR had a 5 hour turnaround and LAX had 3.5. Both planes then returned to SIN between 0530 and 0600 allowing for interchange between routes. While EWR departed again late morning, LAX wasn't until late afternoon, allowing for the quick CGK flight. The same two planes that were in SIN on any given day, were back 2 days later.

They were able to be one A345 down but still cover daily EWR and LAX non-stops as well as the CGK flight if necessary.

[SQfanatic]

Didn't they have only 5 of the A345 and also had 2 nonstop destinations?

They did but I always thought CGK was a route that they flew in between ultra long haul gaps. (i.e. Aircraft comes from LAX, does a morning CGK run, can do another LAX run)

[SQ217]

Wow thats a very very expensive way to keep just one plane for "spare", as even for the other aircrafts like the 77W, A350s, and 787s, SIA do not even keep one spare for each type although they can make use of the others but likely result in some delays and inconveniences for passengers, and the remaining aircrafts have to log in more flying hours to cover for the AOG planes. Perhaps SIA can make use of the aspare A350ULR for a high yield destination like Jakarta - which it did fly the previous A345 to.

Didn't they have only 5 of the A345 and also had 2 nonstop destinations?