I travel PER-HKG 3-4 times a year and have to say, I'm pretty much over the SIN stopover. Also I seem to struggle to get decent flights in/out of SIN, and usually end up on the 1am out and 5am in flights ... its fine for a few trips, but I'm getting close to my limit I think. All this not helped I guess by the pretty old interiors on SQ ex PER either.
So, initial excitement at the prospect of burning bazillions of points on J upgrades via VA ... but I'm not going to travel to SYD or BNE first ... and if there is much prospect of losing the transcon 330's ... well ... its going to end up pretty much being all bad for me.
So people are saying it seems unlikely VA would fly a 330 out of PER to go direct to HKG ... I reckon they'd do ok, even if only a few times a week rather than a flight a day. Its been ages since I've taken SQ out of PER without the flight being chockers ... now, of course, stopping in SIN I don't know where those passengers end points are, but there is no doubt about the numbers going to asia from PER in general.
Oh, by the by, had the opportunity to remind myself of how unimpressive SQ 380's are in Y as I did this SIN-HKG last week. 10 across down the back ... yuck.