SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) will be deploying the Airbus A380 aircraft on its daily flights linking Singapore to Frankfurt and New York (JFK) from January 15, bringing to an end its last longhaul one-stop service operated with the aging B747-400s.
The higher density version of the A380 with 471 seats will be utilised on the route, injecting 25.5 per cent more capacity (20 per cent and 27 per cent increases in business- and economy-class, respectively). There are also 12 suites on board the A380, compared to 12 first-class seats on the B747.
The additional business-class capacity on SIA services between Singapore and New York is not expected to affect its daily non-stop Singapore-New York (Newark) flights, but will instead allow the Singapore flag carrier to offer a homogenous business-class product between Singapore and New York.
New York will be SIA’s second North American destination after Los Angeles to be served by the A380, while Frankfurt will be its fourth A380 destination in Europe.
