SQ to reduce Business and First capacity into Melbourne
Oct 31, 2017, 8:20 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Mar 2016
Programs: SQ PPS Golden Circle Diamond
Posts: 7
SQ to reduce Business and First capacity into Melbourne
SQ has blooked all 1st class booking from April 2018 onwards for SQ217 and return flyingt Melb - Sin and is now blocking out business seats to allow for a small business class sector.
SQ PPS have confirmed wholesale frequency changes have been planned for months but not announced.
SQ PPS have confirmed wholesale frequency changes have been planned for months but not announced.
Oct 31, 2017, 5:02 pm
#3
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: IAH and ORD
Programs: United 1K, Marriott Titanium and LTT
Posts: 163
Interesting. I've done this flight 7x in J in the past 4 months and it's always been full or very nearly full. In fact on my last trip I had to go a day later as all 4 MEL-SIN flights on the day I wanted were sold out in J.
F usually fairly empty so that makes sense.
F usually fairly empty so that makes sense.
Nov 7, 2017, 10:20 pm
#7
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Singapore
Programs: QF LTG, SQ EGTP, Bonvoy LTG
Posts: 4,847
Disagree completely! It's the only flight from MEL-SIN that you have the possibility of making star alliance business class awards on from most other star alliance mileage programs (except LH Miles & More which I believe can access the long haul cabin). In the last days of the old UA Mileage Plus table (30K miles MEL-SIN vs new table with 50K miles) we even scored 4x J seats on the flight. One can cope with the A330 cabin for this amount of miles, especially as a day flight.
For regular travellers, it's not difficult to avoid SQ248 being a 3x weekly service with 238 and 228 within 2.25 hrs and 3hrs time of its departure respectively - unless you a constrained by the fact that it seems to have plentiful award availability and cheaper fare classes available .. compared to other services
For regular travellers, it's not difficult to avoid SQ248 being a 3x weekly service with 238 and 228 within 2.25 hrs and 3hrs time of its departure respectively - unless you a constrained by the fact that it seems to have plentiful award availability and cheaper fare classes available .. compared to other services
Last edited by lokijuh; Nov 7, 2017 at 10:51 pm
Nov 9, 2017, 6:03 pm
#9
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 973
Nope. They will be replaced with new aircraft (likely 787s) with a new regional business class. SQ has no intention of opening up its proper premium cabins to partners.
Nov 9, 2017, 8:00 pm
#10
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: YVR, KUL
Programs: AC, MH, BA, AF-KL
Posts: 2,904
In the past it was possible to snag partner F/J awards on the 744/772. When the 77W and 380s arrived, were they forced to open up those new seats to partners? Quite the opposite, really.
Dec 3, 2017, 6:40 pm
#11
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 123
SQ218 is available to book again in Suites for Aug 2018 (Revenue & Award). It shows as A380 and that's also what the booking hotline told me. I monitored availability since Aug 2017, as I was booked on SQ238 and wanted both Suites and better flight times for our schedule. It wasn't available for a few months, but just last week I could switch my award booking.
Jan 24, 2018, 3:05 pm
#13
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 89
Yes, SQ have announced that SQ 247/248 will extend to Wellington on a 772, replacing the Canberra-Wellington (SIN-CBR is removed and there'll be a daily SIN-SYD-CBR instead, see the dedicated "Capital express" thread)
Jan 25, 2018, 5:42 pm
#15
Join Date: Feb 2017
Programs: MM, Krisflyer, QFF, VFF
Posts: 441
Exactly, why would SIA increase number of business seats just to give them away in awards? Do you want SIA to crash and burn into bankruptcy??