A380 - Master Thread

[MainlyMiles]

It seem like SQ222/231 will get the refitted A380 from 10th June onwards.

Only until 1st August, then it goes onto Delhi for a month before switching to Mumbai from 1st September onwards.

[SQ228]

It seem like SQ222/231 will get the refitted A380 from 10th June onwards.

Makes sense. Our peak overseas travel season from Australia is about to begin and getting extra landing slots at SYD isn't easy so those seats will get filled I'd expect.

And finally, we can now expect a refitted A380 to come into service!

[sbs2716g]

It seem like SQ222/231 will get the refitted A380 from 10th June onwards.

[sbs2716g]

SKJ on SQ336 n SKM on SQ802 today
SKH on SQ830. Lot of switching.

SKI have been out for around 10 days. Think there might an issue for the rotation after 1st June if SKI is still not back.

[SQ228]

I'm booked on xmas day from jfk to sin. The plane has a y cabin upper deck. I thought the jfk route has been using the plane that has a full j cabin upstair?

You're correct but it's about to switch over. The route requires 3 planes to cover it and as the all-J upper deck fleet are being refurbished first, it will soon be too difficult to source 3 of them.

[sbs2716g]

I'm booked on xmas day from jfk to sin. The plane has a y cabin upper deck. I thought the jfk route has been using the plane that has a full j cabin upstair?

It will be switch to the Version with Y cabin on upper deck from 1st June

[SQ_326]

I'm booked on xmas day from jfk to sin. The plane has a y cabin upper deck. I thought the jfk route has been using the plane that has a full j cabin upstair?

[sbs2716g]

I wonder if it's a sign that this one or maybe SKT is refitted

Can advise how is the pinging of SKS related to the refit of SKT?

[SQfanatic]

9V-SKS pinged momentarily on FlightRadar24 earlier today (24MAY19) and seemed to have been moved between East and West Cargo aprons.

I wonder if it's a sign that this one or maybe SKT is refitted

[MAN Flyer]

Is it fair to say that the issues at India-Pakistan border cause longer flight times and thus eat into the already-short turnaround?

I don't think that's got too much, if anything, to do with it. Turning SQ318/319 around in the short time frame allowed has always been a push at a place like LHR where you can 'arrive' in London then still not be at the gate for 30, 45 or even 60 minutes due to stacking, taxiing and waiting for a gate.

[SQuelch]

For LHR they are looking at swapping aircraft going back down to SIN so that SQ319 is a 380 and SQ321 is the 77W that currently operates SQ318. It makes sense from a ground ops point as it is a struggle to get SQ319 ready in time with such a short turnaround, especially at a place like LHR

Is it fair to say that the issues at India-Pakistan border cause longer flight times and thus eat into the already-short turnaround?

[MAN Flyer]

For LHR they are looking at swapping aircraft going back down to SIN so that SQ319 is a 380 and SQ321 is the 77W that currently operates SQ318. It makes sense from a ground ops point as it is a struggle to get SQ319 ready in time with such a short turnaround, especially at a place like LHR

[sbs2716g]

Well yes, the Y demand for DEL and BOM is much higher which is why they use version 1 with 333 Y seats. But for the same reason, that's why I'm not sure they will rush to switch those destinations to version 3. Doing so would result in only 10 more Y seats to sell, but an additional 18 J seats. I'm just guessing it might be easier to sell those additional J seats if they were headed to SYD.

Problem is that there are 3x777 (48x3 J) , 2xA380 (60+78 J) daily for Sydney. Can SQ fill up all the J seats? N there is only 6 suites. There isn’t any indication that SQ have limit the sales of suites for SQ222/231 for the next 2-3 months. （unlike Tokyo, suites sales were restricted to 6 from Aug only).

Further the Ver3 on Del/Bom should be just temp deployment (since Del will lost A380 from 17/6 n Bom from 1/7). Or maybe SKT will straight be deploy to SQ638 (but that mean they still have to deal with shortage of Ver 1 plane)

[9V-SPL]

9V-SKS pinged momentarily on FlightRadar24 earlier today (24MAY19) and seemed to have been moved between East and West Cargo aprons.

[SQ228]

But the Y seats is more than Ver 1. N the Y demand is big for Del n Bom.
Version 2 Y seats is 88 lesser.

Well yes, the Y demand for DEL and BOM is much higher which is why they use version 1 with 333 Y seats. But for the same reason, that's why I'm not sure they will rush to switch those destinations to version 3. Doing so would result in only 10 more Y seats to sell, but an additional 18 J seats. I'm just guessing it might be easier to sell those additional J seats if they were headed to SYD.