Singapore Airlines continues to rebuild its route network in North America with more flights to more cities in the United States, ending an eight-month waiting cycle for the pandemic that saw the airline function as a U. S. singles route.
Following the launch of its new direction last week between Singapore and New York, which won the top position of the world’s longest flight in terms of distance, the national airline is doubling with an increase in flights to the West Coast. Starting in December, Los Angeles will see an increase in flights, as San Francisco will see its first flights scheduled since April, either laying the groundwork for the airline’s post-pandemic recovery.
The first flight to San Francisco will depart Singapore on December 15 and return two days later on December 17. The Bay Area will begin service 3 times a week from Singapore on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, while the airline will settle on the new itinerary, which has a departure of 14 hours, 40 minutes and 17 hours and 35 minutes in the way back.
“America is the largest market in the world, it’s a market that no one can ignore,” Joey Seow, regional vice president for the Americas, told Business Insider. “Even though many passengers are not where we were in the days leading up to COVID, we are entering the market. “
Singapore Airlines has served the United States for nearly a century, developing in six cities and nine routes before the pandemic. Now begins the long road back to the network that the airline has been building for decades, but it took less than two months to demolish the pandemic.
The pandemic hit Singapore Airlines at its peak in the United States as it emerged in a wave of unprecedented connectivity between the United States and Singapore.
In 2018, Singapore Airlines began introducing more nonstop flights to US cities, bringing the two countries closer together through reduction times. That year, the world’s longest nonstop flight from Singapore to Newark resumed in October and nonstop flights between Singapore and Los Angeles Then Seattle was added in 2019, the last address to the United States before the pandemic.
A wonderful announcement through the airline in October saw the addition of a new address between Singapore and New York, the airline’s only U. S. expansion in 2020. Flights 3 times a week began on November 11.
But now, as U. S. cities are in the middle of the world, they’re not going to be able to do that. But it’s not the first time Preparing for a momentary wave in the midst of a potentially extended holiday season, why is Singapore Airlines expanding to more US cities. America?
The airline sees a soft at the end of the tunnel for the pandemic, according to Seow, and is positioned for the opening of Array The country of Singapore is in a general state after relaxing to the maximum its restrictions on stalls where indoor food is common, bubbles with foreign countries opening up and the extension of the network is minimal.
While the same cannot be said for the United States, positive news about vaccines is an encouraging signal to the airline that generalization may occur faster or later, and that would mean that overseas it would resume faster than expected.
For now, the lack of passengers occupying their comfortable seats will be made up for through the amount of shipment carried in the shipping warehouse below: Singapore imports as a small city-state and serves as a regional transit hub for the goods traveling through Southeast Asia.
The cargo justified the release of the New York route, as Singapore Airlines has a shipping processing facility at JFK Airport and the cargo is generating a premium due to the global shortage of shipping area on shipping ships worldwide.
Prior to the pandemic, Singapore Airlines relied on an aircraft to fly the nonstop Airbus A350-900 XWB in the United States. Its intercontinental autonomy and fuel economy have facilitated the care of the ultra-long-distance flights needed to attach Singapore and the United States, allowing the airline to expand its nonstop route network and save passengers a few hours.
Singapore Airlines has 52 aircraft in its fleet, adding seven of the A350-900ULR variant, short for “ultra-long-haul”, used in the Singapore to Newark flight, in which Business Insider flew in 2018 with business elegance and premium economy. Flights from New York and Los Angeles will see the configuration of three elegant ones that provides business elegance, premium economic elegance and affordable elegance. Business Insider visited the plane before its inaugural race from New York to Singapore last week.
“In the case of San Francisco, we placed the ULR just because we don’t have enough A350 aircraft,” Seow said.
Singapore Airlines expects orders for 15 aircraft through Airbus, adding seven ULRs.
Seow would not say precisely that Singapore Airlines will return to its full perspective in the United States and what the long term of operations in the Americas will look like; however, increasing COVID instances will not be the only thing through which the airline where to fly in the United States then, as the sending call will play a vital role in long-term expansions and acquisitions.
Direct routes to Singapore are likely to return first, but one-stop routes through European and Asian cities are not entirely irrelevant, Seow said, the call will dictate his return. The airline does not aim to cut off those routes.
The flight from Newark will also return in due course, according to Seow, although direct flights to New York are more likely before the airline makes this move. Demand is expected to return particularly to justify flights back to two other airports in the New York area.