Originally Posted by
Darlox
In addition to the equipment and other factors mentioned above, because of arrival restrictions at Changi, the SQ flight always had to depart at like 10am. This timing makes it infeasible for a US airline to get any kind of significant feed into LAX prior to the flight same-day, so it would be (effectively) a West Coast-only flight. As SQ discovered, there's not the traffic to support that.
Originally Posted by
Kacee
At least when I flew it, the SQ flight was a late night departure from LAX (around midnight).
IIRC, the SQ non-stops left LAX around 9 PM or so. When SQ flew LAX-TPE-SIN, those flights left around 1 AM.
Originally Posted by
Darlox
UA and SQ would also have to start cooperating a LOT more closely on feed to other destinations in SE Asia to make this really successful, and I don't see that happening either! Right now, UA would rather route you out-of-alliance on CX or KA, via HKG, than sell a SQ flight...
It was very telling that SQ code-shared with US on a number of routes rather than UA. As far as I can tell, there was no love lost between UA and SQ.