SIA 2008/09 Northern Winter + & - to OZ/NZ

[Jim Liu]

Singapore Airlines is making some changes to its Australia and New Zealand network for the 2008/09 Northern Winter season.

Sydney
SQ233/234, 777-300ER

Service reduction from Daily to 5 weekly from 01SEP08. Original planned reduction period was until 25OCT08. But this has been extended:

01SEP08 - 26NOV08
02FEB09 - 28MAR09

Melbourne
Effective 01DEC08, Melbourne flight will be increased from 21 to 24 weekly from 26OCT08 till 31JAN09, with the addition of SQ211/212 service

SQ217 SIN0955 - 2015MEL 77W D
SQ211 SIN1045 - 2110MEL 772 146
SQ227 SIN2100 - 0715+1MEL 744 D
SQ237 SIN2315 - 0930+1MEL 744 D

SQ218 MEL0105 - 0535MEL 77W D
SQ238 MEL1055 - 1530MEL 744 D
SQ228 MEL1700 - 2135MEL 744 D
SQ212 MEL2355 - 0435+1SIN 772 146

SQ237/238 starting 08AUG08 will see 744 replace 773 until 31DEC08
SQ227/228 will be replaced by 773 from 01MAR09

Brisbane
SQ255/256 will be reduced to 5 weekly from 01SEP08 to 20NOV08 as well as 03FEB09 onward

Adelaide
No Changes

Perth
SQ225/226 being increased from 4 weekly to Daily from 21NOV08 to 31JAN09

Auckland
SQ281/282 starting 01SEP08 will be reduced to 5 weekly until 13NOV08, as well as 03FEB09 and onwards

Christchurch
No Changes

http://airlineroute.blogspot.com/200...rn-winter.html

[Michael Morrison]

EIK!

MEL gets a 773.... not nice for those in J/F!

[James Smith]

The flights from MEL to MEL take forever.

[Jim Liu]

Originally Posted by James Smith

The flights from MEL to MEL take forever.

should've been MEL to SIN!

[Simon L.]

Great to see SQ is not planning any service reduction on SIN-ADL route, but that's no surprise at all.

Every single SQ flight I had been on between SIN and ADL for the past year had a load factor over 85% - and I am a somewhat regular on the route (flew 11 sectors between SIN and ADL on SQ over the past 12 months - in both peak and low seasons).

Regards.

[Shameel Kumar]

Originally Posted by Jim Liu

Singapore Airlines is making some changes to its Australia and New Zealand network for the 2008/09 Northern Winter season.

Sydney
SQ233/234, 777-300ER

Service reduction from Daily to 5 weekly from 01SEP08. Original planned reduction period was until 25OCT08. But this has been extended:

01SEP08 - 26NOV08
02FEB09 - 28MAR09

A reduction in 77W frequencies into SYD... Nooooo ..tell me this isn't so!

Any update on which days SYD won't be blessed with the SQ 77W ?

[Jim Liu]

Originally Posted by Shameel Kumar

A reduction in 77W frequencies into SYD... Nooooo ..tell me this isn't so!

Any update on which days SYD won't be blessed with the SQ 77W ?

There will be no Mon/Wed service both ways

[Shameel Kumar]

Originally Posted by Jim Liu

There will be no Mon/Wed service both ways

Thanks for the info Jim.


Well as long as weekend services of the SQ77W aren't removed I'm all happy.

Any reason for the reduction though?...something to do with the A380 capacity, or just an RoI decision by the bean-counters?

[Simon L.]

I think there is a small degree of overcapacity between Singapore and Sydney during low seasons, as I experienced first hand over the last 12 months, sometimes I'd been able to secure ID/AD tickets in and out of Sydney while not a single seat can be found for Melbourne and Adelaide services when looking at the same dates.