SQ Singapore Air cuts Australian flights

[moa999]

Report in the SMH from Reuters that SQ will be cutting flights to Sydney, Perth and Brisbane by end of March, as part of 200 flight cuts globally.

Singapore Air cuts Australian flights

 

[Evan]

They do say flight cuts but i know the A330's were planned for some AU routes which would be seat cuts as well ! or maybe only seat cuts and the news reporter mis-reported.
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[markis10]

SQ announces OZ flight reductions

Singapore Air cuts Australian flights


Flights to Sydney, Perth and Brisbane will be among 200 cut by Singapore Airlines between now and the end of March as the carrier battles to cope with falling passenger demands.........

Edit Dupe thread -sorry!

 

[oz_mark]

At the moment BNE and PER have three flights a day. I understand that in both cases one of the flights is being dropped back to three or four flights a week from its current daily operation. So instead of 21 weekly flights there will be 17 or 18.

 

[Evan]

Maybe SQ can now get back to training a few of there staff to offer the good service of old !
21 x B777 to 17-18 x A333 will be a fair reduction

Current seats B777-200 x 21 = 6783
New A333-300 X 17.5 = 4987.5 (poor half a person on half a flight)

A reduction of a little over 25% of the seats. (About 7% reduction in J/C seats only though since both aircraft have 30 C/J)

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[Nigelinoz]

Travelweekly,an industry newsletter is reporting that the routes affected are Adelaide,Brisbane and Perth and not Sydney,Brisbane and Perth as
was reported in the original Reuters story.
SQ is cutting 7 of it's 98 weekly flights according to the story.
Full story:
.http://www.travelweekly.com.au/dirplus/images/travelweekly/TravelTodayPDF/19_01_2009.pdf

 

[dajop]

In their online timetables, SQ is showing cuts to SYD/BNE/PER frequencies as early as February, but ADL is still showing daily all the way through to May. There may besome capacity cut to ADL with reversion to A330 (not sure extent of this, as IIRC ADL is currently served by 772's).