A350 Deliveries and Routes

[SQ025]

There's a thread in airliners.net about a possible new SQ destination... and one of the most recent posts mention nonstop JFK with SIN-FRA-JFK downgraded to 77W and SIN-NRT-LAX upgraded to an A380. https://www.airliners.net/forum/view...5159&start=100

They struggle already with PEY demand on the ULR to the Westcoast and I assume that they are struggling with PEY demand (maybe not o the same extend) to EWR as well. Wouldn't make sense to add even more capacity.

[oliverdave]

There's a thread in airliners.net about a possible new SQ destination... and one of the most recent posts mention nonstop JFK with SIN-FRA-JFK downgraded to 77W and SIN-NRT-LAX upgraded to an A380. https://www.airliners.net/forum/view...5159&start=100

I’m not saying that it’s impossible, but a direct JFK flight doesn’t make sense to me. The reason they chose EWR in the first place was because of connection possibilities with UA.

[SQ957]

Pure speculation: EWR goes 10x nonstop weekly, JFK downgauge to 77W.

There's a thread in airliners.net about a possible new SQ destination... and one of the most recent posts mention nonstop JFK with SIN-FRA-JFK downgraded to 77W and SIN-NRT-LAX upgraded to an A380. https://www.airliners.net/forum/view...5159&start=100

[9V-JKL]

From the beginning of SQ32/1, their timings were designed to interlock with the large bank of European flights- an A350 would leave SIN on Monday morning, returning from SFO on Tuesday evening ready to depart for Europe later that night, then arriving back in SIN at dawn on Thursday morning ready to be turned around for SFO again. In this way, three craft could fully service SFO and a European destination. By separating SFO from the European group, both flights then need two planes each, creating the need for an additional aircraft to do the same work.

Your ability to figure out SQ's aircraft rotation never ceases to amaze me.

[yuuka_miya]

Presumably they wanted to collect data on how the new batch of A350s are doing compared to the older ones, and SFO was the best flight to do so.

I'd think the improvements from the ULR program applied to all A350s would be worth investigating. Perhaps the change to 2017Y too?

Makes me wonder on the viability of putting them on LAX as well, and saving the ULR for someplace else.

[SQ228]

9V-SMV n 9V-SMZ are only flying SQ32/31 this month

That’s about to end as SMV has headed off to AMS so a different plane will have to handle the next SQ32 departure but you’re right that they’ve been doing this until now.

This arrangement represents a significant deficit in fleet utilisation however, so there must really be something going on here that SQ has wanted to test out or achieve. From the beginning of SQ32/1, their timings were designed to interlock with the large bank of European flights- an A350 would leave SIN on Monday morning, returning from SFO on Tuesday evening ready to depart for Europe later that night, then arriving back in SIN at dawn on Thursday morning ready to be turned around for SFO again. In this way, three craft could fully service SFO and a European destination. By separating SFO from the European group, both flights then need two planes each, creating the need for an additional aircraft to do the same work.

[sbs2716g]

9V-SMV n 9V-SMZ are only flying SQ32/31 this month

[SQKevin]

9V-SJA landing at Changi on its Delivery Flight.



Photo source: Niner Victor FB page

[SQKevin]

9V-SJA has landed at Changi bringing the SQ A350-900 fleet to 43.

[SQKevin]

9V-SJA is on her Delivery Flight as SQ8895. She is scheduled to arrive at Changi at 4.42pm (local time).

[SQKevin]

9V-SJA is displaying her Final Registration after 2 CAF and is ready for her flight home later this evening.

[9V-SPL]

9V-SJA is scheduled to arrive in SIN on Saturday (23NOV19) with STA: 1440 as SQ8895.

[MainlyMiles]

I think we might see SJB/SJC/SJD.

Agreed - I'd say it's almost inevitable.

SIA have 11 A350 delivery slots in the (approximate) July - December 2020 period. They won't need 11 more A350 Regionals next year on top of the 4 A350Rs arriving Jan-Mar.

[yuuka_miya]

Essentially there will be 2 extra A350s that is not required and unless SQ announces a new longhaul destination to the US, these 2 A350s will be not effectively used but up till now there is no announcement of any new US destination. SQ may then reconfigure back one or two of these ULRs to the standard 3 class configuration.

Actually, now that I think about it, would it be possible to have a 7 abreast PEY cabin of 3-4 rows on the ULR, and then have a small true economy cabin at the back?

Presumably if QF can get away with selling 9 across on the 787 for PER-LHR, SQ could afford to do so on the A350.

[SQ228]

From 29/3. , SQ890/891 will be using the A350 long haul version. And Seattle also will be adding one more flight. Thus that might explain SQ207/208 will be swapped out of the A350?

I think we might see SJB/SJC/SJD.

SQ890/891 would absolutely be the swap with SQ207/208. That’s very good info! They’ve chosen to switch capacity of HKG to MEL. This can be seen as a straight swap which would not have any bearing on A350 long haul operations.

The extra SEA flight would probably be squeezed from existing capacity as there are a few days of the week where an extra rotation could be jammed in. It would be getting a bit tight though.