Manchester: Singapore Airlines News & Flight Discussions

[Yawner]

WARNING!!!!
Fantasy route planning

SQ seem to be building a quite obscure US route into a UA hub with a handful of connections at either end. UA apparently struggling with Newark. SQ could probably do a better job with proper cooperation and goodwill with UA on MAN-EWR. How could this be achieved to everyone's satisfaction? How about:

SIN-DEL-MAN-EWR

Traffic rights exist for all legs except possibly India-US.

Flight could cater for growth SIN-MAN and the plane would be filled on other legs with either existing traffic (MAN-EWR and SIN-DEL) and a route with good potential (DEL-MAN). Any DEL-EWR rights would be a bonus but not necessary for success. Wouldn't expect any trade SIN-EWR.

Yes I am bored on a Sunday afternoon

 

[User001]

UA to Newark isn't struggling, that's all I will say for now...l

 

[Dobbo]

To add, UA and SQ don't get on at all and there is no prospect of that changing any time soon.

As an example, UA have been asked to codeshare onwards from IAH and have refused. This obviously doesn't help SQ but may just have been VS' saving grace at ATL...

 

[Yawner]

Dobbo, UA do operate onwards from Houston for SQ E.G. SQ1600 to Atlanta

 

[Dobbo]

Dobbo, UA do operate onwards from Houston for SQ E.G. SQ1600 to Atlanta

Well, if they do, I can't book them!

 

[User001]

The SQ codeshare flights only seem to be bookable ex-SIN and not MAN.

For example, putting SIN-ATL into google flights and selecting SQ only, brings up SIN-MAN-IAH-ATL, but doing the same ex-MAN brings up no results.

 

[Yawner]

Guess that makes sense otherwise SQ could undermine UA's hub at EWR from MAN.

 

[Chilly Dog]

Just for those that are curious, here's what the SQ-coded flights connecting from Houston look like:

22AUG17-18SEP17 MTWTFSS HOUSTON /AUSTIN
10SEP 10SEP ......7 IAH AUS 1745 1838 @SQ1604 320*C
17SEP 17SEP ......7 IAH AUS 1745 1842 @SQ1604 319*C
06SEP .23.5.. IAH AUS 1745 1839 @SQ1604 739*C
05SEP .23.567 IAH AUS 1752 1848 @SQ1604 739*C
09SEP .....6. IAH AUS 1755 1848 @SQ1604 320*C

As you can see - 5 days a week to connect with our SQ service.

On sale in US and Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong and AU/NZ, for what it's worth.

 

[Land23R]

Friday night's flight managed to get out of Houston but Sat. & Sun. departures never left MAN, so there will be at least 4 sectors short when assessing August loads. Whether Tuesday's and Wednesday's flights to IAH will depart and further affect August stats. remains to be seen.

 

[Dobbo]

Well worth remembering. Certainly sounds like a pretty miserable experience for all concerned.

Hope it doesn't cause any long term harm to the route...

 

[ethanegcc]

Personally, I doubt (or hope) it would prove damage to frequent flyers/business contracts as it is obviously as cause to the adverse weather and devastation in Texas. Anecdotally, many are very pleased with the quality of SQ service.

Worth discounting those four sectors from the average loads however.

NB: CX have been having similar issues with storms in Hong Kong recently. One flight was delayed from 1240 to 2300 last week.

 

[User001]

Just as a side note, while IAH is closed to regular flights, SQ have been terminating the SQ51 at MAN, parking the aircraft for 24 hours at MAN then running the aircraft back as SQ52 at the usual time.

 

[User001]

SQ have today said that the SQ51 will terminate in Manchester until further notice.

 

[Dobbo]

For those of you looking for an article on this.

http://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/sias-houston-flights-affected

I really feel for the state of Texas and Houston. Hope they get back on their feet and we see IAH back on the departure boards.

If not, I wonder what the knock on effect of this will be.

 

[Dobbo]

Houston is back!

http://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/sg/media-centre/news-alert/?id=j6wdy5q9

 

[Seasider]

A350 B-LRM operated yesterday's flight.

 

[ethanegcc]

Isn't B-LRM a Cathay Pacific aircraft?

 

[Seasider]

I wondered who would spot my deliberate mistake! It actually was 9V-SMG.

View attachment 5819

 

[ethanegcc]

A quick recap - these are the sector specific breakdowns for MAN-SIN and MAN-IAH traffic from December:

December
MAN/SIN - 145
MAN/IAH - 71

January
MAN/SIN - 152
MAN/IAH - 77

February
MAN/SIN - 165
MAN/IAH - 89

March
MAN/SIN - 165
MAN/IAH - 107

April
MAN/SIN - 174
MAN/IAH - 119

May
MAN/SIN - 133
MAN/IAH - 102

June
MAN/SIN - 158
MAN/IAH - 148

July (my rough average load figures)
MAN/SIN - 179
MAN/IAH - 162

Remember that the actual load factors (with sector specific SIN-IAH and IAH-SIN traffic) are higher than this figure.

Both all time highs for the route! 👍

Here's this graph and the trend is positive (May was an outlier):
View attachment 5868

 

[Coathanger16]

Good to see the Houston sector picking up - lets hope that recent events in Houston won't have a lasting impact.

Any idea what the dip was for on the MAN-SIN sector in May?