Grab a pen, grab some paper and start taking notes, Singapore Airlines has made changes to its Australian network and it mostly affects those on the East Coast.
Announced today, Singapore Airlines’ Regional Vice President said the adjustments to the carrier’s local operations are designed to provide customers with “greatest choice” while also meet demand from Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.
Yes, Canberra. Apparently, the city’s first international flights in a decade are doing better than expected.
“We continue to expand our operations here in Australia and these changes will help to meet the growing demand we have seen in the three cities.”
Philip Goh, Singapore Airlines Regional Vice President
Here’s what’s changing:
1. Wellington’s out, Sydney’s in
The most significant change will be to operations in Canberra, with the service to be de-linked from Wellington and increased to daily operations with a new Singapore-Sydney-Canberra-Singapore routing.
The new service will also act as Sydney’s fifth daily flight delivering customers a new late-night departure from Sydney at 21:20.
2. One more flight to Sydney
Replacing Wellington with Sydney ton the Canberra flight will provide Sydneysiders with a total of 35 weekly flight options on a year-round basis, all of which will feature four cabin classes, including Premium Economy.
3. New aircraft from Canberra
In addition to the switch from Wellington to Sydney, the new daily flight, numbered SQ288, will see a change to the aircraft type flying to the Australian capital with the current Boeing 777-200 replaced with a Boeing 777-300ER.
Fitted with 264 seats, customers travelling to and from Canberra will be provided with the choice of four First Class, 48 Business Class, 28 Premium Economy Class and 184 Economy Class seats.
4. Melbourne snatches Wellington
Melbourne customers will also benefit from increased services, as well as access to a new destination with SQ247/248 increasing to four times weekly and being linked to Wellington.
Currently operated with an Airbus A330 three times a week, SQ247/248 will change to a Boeing 777-200 and operate on a Singapore-Melbourne-Wellington route four times weekly.
The flight will also change departure and arrival times with the Singapore departure moving from 02:00 to 19:45 arriving into Melbourne at 05:10 the next day. The aircraft will then continue on to Wellington at 07:00 arriving in the New Zealand capital at 12:20.
The return flight will depart Wellington at 13:45 arriving in Melbourne at 15:30 before departing again at 16:50 and arriving in Singapore at 22:45.
Changes are subject to regulatory approval and will take effect from Tuesday 1 May 2018 with tickets made available for booking from tomorrow, Thursday 25 January.
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