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Old Aug 25, 2014, 5:56 am
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Open Skies doesn't help if there isn't sufficient landing slots at LHR.
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Old Aug 25, 2014, 7:28 am
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Originally Posted by LETTERBOY
FRA is a *A hub. That may have something to do with it.
Yeah, not everybody on the plane out of SIN is heading to JFK. And the vast majority of those who aren't continuing their journey on SQ are not staying in FRA but simply connecting to ongoing flights elsewhere.
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Old Aug 25, 2014, 12:26 pm
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Originally Posted by TerryK
Open Skies doesn't help if there isn't sufficient landing slots at LHR.
I know that, but a few others where saying its down to getting the rights to fly out of the UK.
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Old Aug 28, 2014, 2:06 am
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Originally Posted by FN-GM
I know that, but a few others where saying its down to getting the rights to fly out of the UK.
Fifth freedoms require rights from each of the countries to permit sale of travel between them.
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Old Aug 28, 2014, 12:43 pm
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Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
Fifth freedoms require rights from each of the countries to permit sale of travel between them.
But it wouldn't be the UK stopping that.
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Old Aug 28, 2014, 10:41 pm
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Cough Gatwick cough.

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Old Aug 29, 2014, 12:26 am
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With 4 daily flights to LHR split across two A380 flights and two B777 flights you would think there could be potential in using the 4 LHR slots for a thrice daily A380 SIN-LHR service and a once daily SIN-NYC rotation whilst still maintianing broadly similar capacity SIN-LHR..
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Old Sep 2, 2014, 10:35 pm
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Originally Posted by lokijuh
IIRC, it was SIN-AMS-EWR which operated alongside SIN-FRA-JFK. What would be neat these days would be a non-stop to North America (SIN-YVR) that continued to EWR. (not sure if a fully loaded 77W could make it, but it is around the same distance as HKG-JFK).
Well Beolab is indeed right.

Long time ago, SQ did fly SIN-AMS/FRA-JFK. The JFK flight was transit in AMS or FRA on alternate day.

I did fly JFK-AMS-JFK on SQ. It was in 1995.

I think later in the year what lokijuh said is true. the AMS flight continue to EWR and FRA to JFK. Then SQ axed SIN-AMS-EWR in favour of nonstop SIN-EWR....

It sounds to me AMS is not a "significant" market for SQ now, as at sometimes, it was operated by lousy B772
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Old Sep 2, 2014, 10:37 pm
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Originally Posted by FN-GM
Singapore and the UK have the open skies agreement so it won't be that stopping them.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/travel...cle1742645.ece
as many said slots are the issue. you can have open skies but they do not give you slot. then no use
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Old Sep 3, 2014, 1:59 am
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Originally Posted by cmdsea
With 4 daily flights to LHR split across two A380 flights and two B777 flights you would think there could be potential in using the 4 LHR slots for a thrice daily A380 SIN-LHR service and a once daily SIN-NYC rotation whilst still maintianing broadly similar capacity SIN-LHR..
That requires 5 slot pairs.

SIN-LHR-SIN x3
SIN-LHR-NYC
NYC-LHR-SIN
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Old Sep 4, 2014, 6:51 pm
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Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
That requires 5 slot pairs.

SIN-LHR-SIN x3
SIN-LHR-NYC
NYC-LHR-SIN
Oops. My mistake. I meant a once daily LHR-NYC rotation.

Ie, One of the 3 daily flights does SIN-LHR-NYC-LHR-SIN
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Old Sep 4, 2014, 11:46 pm
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Always hoping for SIN - LHR - EWR
Enjoyed the SIN - AMS - EWR routing while it lasted .
Will settle for SIN - LHR - JFK
The non stops were good while they lasted , just the wrong aircraft ( for me anyway )
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Old Sep 5, 2014, 12:41 am
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Originally Posted by lingua101
as many said slots are the issue. you can have open skies but they do not give you slot. then no use
I didn't say they did. I am responding to posts where people say its the UK government stopping such a route.
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Old Sep 5, 2014, 1:10 am
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Originally Posted by FN-GM
I didn't say they did. I am responding to posts where people say its the UK government stopping such a route.
Not directly, but may be indirectly. Government can still "stop" it by not giving the slot right?
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Old Sep 5, 2014, 7:45 pm
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Originally Posted by cmdsea
Oops. My mistake. I meant a once daily LHR-NYC rotation.

Ie, One of the 3 daily flights does SIN-LHR-NYC-LHR-SIN
Which reduces seats available for SIN-LHR.
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