Economy Class & Beyond

SQ: A380’s cleared to fly

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After grounding it's A380 fleet for inspections, Singapore Airlines have cleared their A380 fleet to fly again.Certain services have been switched to 777-300ER's to provide spare capacity, with some services delayed by 6 hours or so during the checks.However, expect a bit of background delays and fuller planes for a few days.Qantas has yet to reinstate it's A380 fleet. … [Read more...]

SQ: Grounds A380 fleet for precautionary checks.

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It's taken a few hours, but Singapore Airlines has reacted and in conjunction with Rolls Royce has taken it's A380's out of service for preacationary checks.Or in Singapore Airline's own words:Our engine manufacturer Rolls Royce and aircraft manufacturer Airbus have advised us to conduct precautionary technical checks on our A380 aircraft, following today's incident involving … [Read more...]

QF/SQ: Singapore Airlines will continue to operate…

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More breaking news from the A380 Incident today, with the announcement that Singapore Airlines (the other A380 operator who uses Rolls Royce Engines) will continue to operate their A380's - having no plans to ground them.Quoting a Singapore Airlines spokesperson:"There are no plans as of now to ground our A380 aircraft, and operations are continuing as normal" "It is … [Read more...]

SQ: To launch BCN-GRU Route…

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Signapore airlines are quietly beavering away in the background, and has recived route approval and lauced a schedle for Barcelona to San Paulo service as a tag-on to their Singapore - Barcalona route.Flight No. Depart      Arrive  Depart     Arrive        EQU … [Read more...]

SQ: Singapore Airlines has a good quarter….

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Well, the upturn is in full effect, with the news from Singapore Airlines has made a first-quarter profit of 253 million Singapore dollars ($184.7m; £119m).Singapore Airlines put this down to a rise of passenger and freight traffic - which is good to see, and are expecting these numbers to hold for the remainder of the year. Passenger numbers climbed by 5.5% in the first … [Read more...]

JL/NH: JAL and ANA annoucnes it’s Haneda intentions…

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Whilst JAL isn't out of the fire when it comes to its financial troubles, it is continue to innovate with the opening up of Tokyo Haneda. And there are some interest routes opening up including:BangkokHonolulu Paris Charles De Gaulle San Francisco.SingaporeTaipei SongshanANA on the other hand has made it's move, which makes it a practical head to head on lots of them. The … [Read more...]

SQ: Maybe there is money beyond the main cities…

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Singapore Air is a funny old beast of an airline, running A380's across the world and keeping its fleet relatively young.It's also had a link to Manchester for quite some time, that has been recently under strain when the direct service went patchy to 3 days a week, and finally, the service was switched to 5 days a week with a diversion to Munich to pick up more passengers.Well … [Read more...]

More A380’s heading towards LHR … and MAN?

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Both Qantas and Emirates are upping service frequency and swapping Boeing 747's/777's for Airbus A380 aircraft for London services.Emirates will be bringing a second service, which will be EK03/04 (along with EK01/02) with a Dubai service, making it two A380 services a day to London Heathrow.  The remaining services (EK05/06, 07/08) will remain on whatever other equipment … [Read more...]