Singapore Airlines are to replace a rotation on the Singapore to Hong Kong route, by replacing an existing pair of flights operated by a Boeing 777-300ER with an Airbus A380 take its place.
The flight pair being switched SQ866/SQ865, resulting in the following timetable from the winter timetable, commencing 27th October 2013:
Singapore to Hong Kong SQ890 DEPART SIN 07:35 ARRIVE HKG 11:20 Boeing 777-200 SQ860 DEPART SIN 08:30 ARRIVE HKG 12:15 Boeing 777-200 SQ856 DEPART SIN 09:30 ARRIVE HKG 13:30 Airbus A380 SQ866 DEPART SIN 13:00 ARRIVE HKG 17:00 Airbus A380 SQ872 DEPART SIN 15:05 ARRIVE HKG 18:50 Boeing 777-200 SQ002 DEPART SIN 18:30 ARRIVE HKG 22:15 Boeing 777-300ER SQ870 DEPART SIN 19:55 ARRIVE HKG 23:40 Boeing 777-200 Singapore to Hong Kong SQ001 DEPART HKG 08:00 ARRIVE SIN 11:50 Boeing 777-300ER SQ859 DEPART HKG 10:30 ARRIVE SIN 14:20 Boeing 777-200 SQ891 DEPART HKG 12:30 ARRIVE SIN 16:20 Boeing 777-200 SQ863 DEPART HKG 13:30 ARRIVE SIN 17:20 Boeing 777-200 SQ861 DEPART HKG 15:20 ARRIVE SIN 19:20 Airbus A380 SQ865 DEPART HKG 18:50 ARRIVE SIN 22:50 Airbus A380 SQ871 DEPART HKG 19:55 ARRIVE SIN 23:45 Boeing 777-200 Operates from 27th October 2013. All flights operate daily.
This makes available over 2300 seats a day by one airline between the two cities (my rough calculations put it at about 2388 seats, depending on aircraft configuration used)
If an A380 is adding 100 seats, that’s still a fair chunk of seats.
Any way you cut that, that’s a LOT of seats between the two cities by one carrier.
Interestingly they schedule the A380 for 10-15 minute longer block times than 777. And an extra 35-40 minutes for turn time. That diminishes the economics of A380 on shorter routes.