yes... and no.

Obviously, the JV gets UA revenue for the whole trip. But UA is happy to book you OAL when it makes sense, even on non-*. For example, there are plenty of destinations in S. Asia where they will sell you a UA TPAC to say, HKG and connect you on CX. In fact, I can tell you for sure I’ve seen this personally for flights to from CGK, DPS and BKK. I ended up booking to CGK connecting to ANA because it made the most sense, but I beleive the flights with the CX connection were the same price. Leaving from BKK, I actually booked a CX-UA connection at HKG, because the ANA connection was I think $300 plus more expensive per person, and to me, traveling with 3 at the time, another $1000 for the trip made no sense. But they do it with CX, there is no reason why they can’t do it with SQ. Because SIN involved a stop until recently, it probably didn’t make much sense, but now, with SiN being non-stop, it should. In fact, some of those destinations would probably be better via SIN then HKG, especially given the relationship with * - thinking places like Indonesia, KUL, BKK, etc.

So it’s not that they can’t do it, it’s that for whatever reason they aren’t partnering with SQ on these kinds of flights. Maybe SQ doesn’t want to because they think they can get more people to take their metal TPAC also and earn more $ that way. Maybe UA doesn’t want extra connecting traffic to places that might not make as many $ as people going to just SIN. From a passenger perspective, it could make a lot of sense for west coast travelers to be able to connect in SIN to other parts of S. Asia, India, etc.

I got an email a bit ago about a new morning (from SFO) / evening (from SIN) flight, but searching on the site I couldn’t find it.

When is it scheduled to start? I am excited about the evening departure from SIN. I prefer the United 787 to the SIA evening flight via Hong Kong, but sometimes it’d be great to leave Friday night rather than early Saturday morning.

Wait...what dates have a $680 round-trip J flight available?