SQ Quits Penang! MI to Take Over all Flights.

[ycp81]

SQ just cannot compete when Air Asia, Tiger and Jetstar are all offering airfares from S$50 return. Makes you wonder how SQ was able to charge more than S$300 for a return trip to Penang just a year ago.

[B727]

Which brings to mind the question: did SQ (and now, presumably MI) get a lot of through connection from PEN? Folks who flew SQ out of PEN cuz they were connecting to another SQ flight out of SIN?

[SQADL333]

A lot of us would pay the extra for more room and better service that is not like riding the bus.
Then there are those of us who are Frequent Flyers in Star Alliance who want their points or miles and will do anything to get them.
If you can't justify spending SQ then take the Train from Singapore through to Butterworth and get the Ferry Across to Penang

[LOWJHG]

Darn it! there goes my wish for a short A333 J class experience

[9V-SIA]

Very very sad.

I was a regular on the route till recently.

B727 you are right.

I thought 777s were not a suitable replacement for A310s that used to ply this route.

[SQflyergirl]

Darn it! there goes my wish for a short A333 J class experience

Short? Fly to KUL instead. The evening 118/119 is served by a 333 for now.

[Toffees]

I was also told SQ have put up their ticketing office (loacted downtown beside Citibank) for sale...as SQ owns this office...if this is true then SQ is quiting Pen for good

[flyguy]

Yes confirmed that SQ is giving aup all its PEN flights to MI. On SQ use of T7 aircraft to regional destinations - SQ should have then ordered the A332 to replace its A310s then - as its more suited with less capacity and less gross weight than the T7 for places like KUL, PEN, JKT, BKK etc.

[SQADL333]

Pure MI service.IS THAT THE WAY most leisure orientated destinations are headed either the regional airline or low cost carrier airline method.
SQ should have gone either the A321 OR A332 route for a A310 replacement to maintain frequency and service.The 777 is way too much plane for anything below SGN or HAN or BKK.

[ycp81]

Will SQ give up Brunei next? Since 3 of it 5x weekly flights are operated by MI aircraft and crew anyway.

And what about SQ PEN staff? Most gonna be retrenched? MI do not need so many staff to run its operations in PEN.

[9V-JKL]

And what about SQ PEN staff? Most gonna be retrenched? MI do not need so many staff to run its operations in PEN.

When I flew MI out of PEN in Jul, check-in staff were contracted. So....

[MAN Flyer]

Yes confirmed that SQ is giving aup all its PEN flights to MI.

Also confirmed in post number one, I believe.

I don't this will be the last of SQ hadning over to MI. More and more annoying as MI are not in *A.

[TerryK]

I would have had no beef with MI if MI were in *A.

[SQflyergirl]

Why can't they have them like a regional *A member like Tyrolean or Blue1 or something like that

[Kyo]

The problem is you're assuming that they actually would want to be part of *A. I can imagine a few reasons about why they wouldn't want this at all, to be honest... that's my conspiracy theory and I'm sticking to it!