Singapore Airlines (SIA) will expand its operations into the United States by opening non-stop flights between Singapore and San Francisco, and will add a second daily flight service to Los Angeles.
Senior Vice President of Marketing Planning Singapore Lee Wen Fen on Friday said non-stop flights between Singapore and San Francisco will be operated daily from October 23, 2016 using Airbus A350-900.
“Currently, SIA serves non-stop flights to San Francisco twice a day, in which one operates flights via Hong Kong, while other flights via Seoul Incheon,” he said.
Lee said that with the launch of non-stop flight service between Singapore and San Francisco, then Singapore-Seoul-San Francisco will turn these into the Singapore-Seoul-Los Angeles began October 23, 2016.
He added that the flight into a second daily service to Los Angeles, complete the flight which has been operating at the time of this route Singapore-Tokyo Narita-Los Angeles.
“Flights between Singapore and San Fransiscoakan become the longest distance flight in the SIA network until 2018,” he said.
The reason, the flight within 13,600 kilometers consuming travel time 14 hours 35 minutes and 17 hours 45 minutes depending on the bow and the period of time (direction and time of year).
“Customers have been asking us to offer more services to the USA and we will meet the demand,” katanya./ On the other hand, Lee said it had to temporarily close the route to Sao Paulo, Brazil for the performance of aviation services are considered less good.
He added that the temporary suspension of services to the Country of Samba began October 20, 2016 that were previously diooperasikan three times a week via Barcelona. “However, Singapore and Barcelona flights will continue to operate,” he said.
Source: Antara
