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Originally Posted by Mark Grima
Rhys, not sure what you mean by the first comment. Yes the direct services is what the topic is refering to, they will now be all J class. Reason for this is the length, 19 hours on the way to the EWR and 18hr 50 mins on the way home. Flights to LAX are about 16 hrs 20 mins and LAX - SIN about 17hr 10 mins. Due to this the higher classes always sold much better then Y.
They still offer flights with a stop either via FRA or NRT to NYC (JFK) and via TPE or NRT to LAX.
As far as I am aware both the non stop flights go over the pacific, I could be wrong though.
Cheers
M
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SIN-EWR goes right up over China and Siberia, over the North Pole, and then down through eastern Canada.
http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=S...OR=&MAP-STYLE=
SIN-LAX goes over up over the North pacific staying east of Japan and Kamchatka, south of the Aleutians and Alaska, and west of coast of Canada and the US.
http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=S...OR=&MAP-STYLE=
The other reason for going to all Business layout was one of weight - the A345 was often weight restricted in order to make the trip back from LA and had to fly back with smaller loads, so they took out all the Y seats along with the heavy IFE screens, cables etc, alot of the overhead bins, some of the WCs and galleys etc, thus saving weight, not to mention the fewer number of pax and luggage too.
Here's the seating plan -
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Sin...bus_A345_B.php - only 98 seats - nice!