Originally Posted by Bear96
But seriously, what about addressing the question. If SQ provides the services everyone wants and flies where people need to go, why not just fly exclusively SQ from now on? UA should have been out of business years ago by now if people had done this, right? As I specifically posted many pages ago, the OP did have the option of SQ transatlantic if s/he really wanted that fab SQ service. Yet UA was still chosen. Why?
A lot of it is schedule convenience. For the US based traveler, UA provides access to many places in throughout the world. SQ does not. But providing schedule convenience is no excuse for not providing top-tier service or for not being profitable. BA does all three for UK bases travelers.