Singapore Airlines will begin operating all-business-class services to Los Angeles and New York in May, in a move it says will create an airline-industry first. The initiative will represent the first time any airline has operated an all-business-class service between Asia and the United States, Singapore Airlines (SIA) said.
SIA plans to convert the five Airbus A340-500 jets it currently operates on nonstop flights to both U.S. cities into all-business-class configuration. At present each A340-500 seats 181 passengers in two classes — business class and SIA’s ‘Executive Economy’ class — but will replace this configuration with a single-class interior that contains 100 of the airline’s new business-class seats.
SIA’s new all-business-class flights will replace the existing daily nonstop services that it operates to Los Angeles and New York using the A340-500s. Singapore Airlines said it is changing the services to all-premium-class flights because of “consistently strong demand from business travelers.” On its Los Angeles-Singapore route, SIA will increase to daily all-business-class service by late September. The conversion program requires each of the five aircraft to be retrofitted in turn and to allow the conversions to be carried out Singapore Airlines will not operate its Tuesday nonstop flights from Los Angeles between mid-May and late June. The carrier also operates Vancouver-Seoul-Singapore service and on March 20 SIA is launching Houston-Singapore one-stop service with 777-300ERs. The new service will route via Moscow.
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