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Old Jul 9, 2005 | 8:06 pm
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Originally Posted by acregal
The plane sits in SIN for 7 hours overnight. Since it's an international flight, you wouldn't even really be able to turn the plane quickly enough to go anywhere meaningful (much less be able to find passengers willing to go on short segments in the middle of the night).
It's a big plane too! Not sure where or if the plane(s) sit on the rest of their route, or if it just shuttles back and forth once a day.

KL is close (208), but regulated. They fly 777's and 737's on that route.
Jakarta is 550 miles and pretty packed from what I have seen. Now if they had another aircraft and flew SIN-SYD-LAX-NRT-SIN and SIN-NRT-LAX-SYD-SIN in a large circles over 48 hours......(SQ would have a cow....)

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