Singapore Airlines 1-Stop & Fifth-Freedom Flights This Summer

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  • čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
  • When it comes to the Southeast Asian giant that is Singapore Airlines, the Star Alliance carrier operates a few interesting fifth freedom services. It's these services we'll look at in this video!
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  • @Benluigi
    @Benluigi Před 10 dny +9

    I flew the PIA 5th Manchester-Houston route in 2005 with a 777-200ER AP-BGK. Lovely crew and a great flight.

    • @d.b.cooper1
      @d.b.cooper1 Před 8 dny +2

      Wow that’s super niche. I recall the PIA 747’s info Manchester being the first 747’s I saw as a kid. Looked insane. Now see A380s on final almost daily which equally never get dull

  • @jayaguhan
    @jayaguhan Před 2 dny +1

    I have flown the Singapore airlines Sydney-Canberra-Singapore service .. it was the only overnight service from Sydney to Singapore with 777

  • @thomasmoore9421
    @thomasmoore9421 Před 10 dny +6

    It would be interesting to see what other 5th freedom flights are out there.

  • @KanJonathan
    @KanJonathan Před 10 dny +6

    Fly SFO-HKG portion in 1991, but just because a nearly 24hr. UA delay(!), and I fell asleep most of the time, just like Jack Ryan in "The Hunt for Red October" ending... Also took SIN-MXP-BCN round-trip for watch late season FC Barcelona games in 2011.

  • @cjever6625
    @cjever6625 Před 3 dny +1

    During the Northern Hemisphere Winter season, Singapore Airlines operates an A350 on its Davao-Cebu route.

  • @adammurphy6845
    @adammurphy6845 Před 9 dny +2

    I was on their old SIN-MEL-WLG between MEL-WLG in 2019. It was WLG's only wide body flight from memory.

  • @glorfindel17
    @glorfindel17 Před 10 dny +3

    I use MAN > IAH > MAN often. Lousy miles credited to Mileageplus, but the service when compared to UA from LHR is worth it

    • @d.b.cooper1
      @d.b.cooper1 Před 8 dny +1

      Always wondered if anyone boards at Manchester? Is it mostly leisure or business travellers? I get the connections but still seems odd

  • @hague28
    @hague28 Před 4 hodinami

    1999 - AMS - EWR on the 744 ... SQ also operated Amsterdam to Chicago for a short while, but that was ended after the September 11 attacks of 2001.

  • @adamunterwalcher5094
    @adamunterwalcher5094 Před 10 dny +1

    I flew the Singapore Airlines fifth freedom route from Copenhagen to Rome in May 2022. Best intra European Flight ever

  • @clarencebenjaminlim
    @clarencebenjaminlim Před 10 dny +1

    Took my 1st biz class flight from Barcelona to Milan and back to Singapore. That was memorable.

  • @history_leisure
    @history_leisure Před 10 dny +2

    I recently saw a video from Planes, Trains, Everything on the Malpenza-Barcelona run

  • @user-ow9dg2xj7y
    @user-ow9dg2xj7y Před 8 dny +2

    i flew from IAH - MAN as i was a transit and went onwards to LHR -DEL. I usually go to houston once a year. and i have taken multiple layovers as DEL - IAH is not connected directly.
    The one i prefer the most are as follows
    DEL - DXB - IAH On emirates 777 then A380
    DEL - DOH - IAH on Qatar airways 787 then A350
    DEL - LHR - IAH on Virgin atlantic then british airways A350 and 787.
    (Edit starts from here)
    I prefer to take these route to IAH from DEL but most of the times i take either emirates or QA
    I wish that AI would have 5th flights from DEL - IAH Via manchester or Madrid.

  • @EruYagami
    @EruYagami Před 9 dny +1

    I believe in the late nineties there was a short period a SIN-CDG-AMS route with the B747-400. Which kinda odd, because the AMS-SIN flight was a direct flight. It was a one time experience, I was never a SIA flight from SIN to AMS and vice versa with a stop anymore.

  • @ksleong4056
    @ksleong4056 Před 10 dny +1

    Back in early 2000 / late 90s, SIA flew SIN - Karachi - Lahore - SIN twice a week and the other two times a week flew SIN - Lahore - Karachi - SIN using A340-300E. Could not carry revenue paying passengers between Karachi and Lahore. It was also rumoured that since jet fuel was excessively expensive in Pakistan at the time, the A340 would carry most of its fuel to get there and back, perhaps topping up only a little.

  • @jamesau4296
    @jamesau4296 Před 8 dny +1

    Not been onboard any SQ fifth freedom flight, but I have been onboard Emirates fifth freedom from HK to Dubai via Bangkok. What special about that is the crew don’t ask us to get off the plane in Bangkok but Thai police get onboard to do the security screening for us.

  • @jamesau4296
    @jamesau4296 Před 8 dny +1

    Plus, there aren't really many Justified fifth freedom operations given that newer planes can fly longer(A35K can fly 16100km enough for SIN-ATL). Not many countries are willing to give up their protection to local carrier

  • @vyshaksingapore
    @vyshaksingapore Před 10 dny +2

    Singapore - Barcelona - São Paulo which ran until 2016 I think. And briefly they also did Singapore - Canberra - Wellington, also known as the Capital Express few years ago

  • @AaronJiju64
    @AaronJiju64 Před 10 dny +2

    I’m pretty sure this summer they will bring the a380 back to the Frankfurt New York routes as i have a booking from Singapore to Frankfurt in august and Singapore airlines says that the a380 will operate the flight.

  • @michelnix4841
    @michelnix4841 Před 10 dny +1

    AMS - EWR and AMS - ORD, that was great and not expensive

  • @Psychphuq
    @Psychphuq Před 10 dny +3

    Have done ADL-SIN-FRA-JFK with a stop in Germany before continuing to USA...
    Followed by JFK-FRA-SIN-ADL with a stop in Singapore before continuing to Australia...
    Whole trip in 2012 was Airbus...
    SIA-JFK part of trip A380... ADL-SIN was A330...

    • @flxme1_
      @flxme1_ Před 10 dny +1

      thats 3 stops! wow! however couldn't you have done a one stop itenerary via dubai/doha/abhu dhabi?

    • @user-ow9dg2xj7y
      @user-ow9dg2xj7y Před 8 dny +1

      Why couldnt have you went via sydney then onwards to LAX then NWR/JFK?

  • @Normalaatsra
    @Normalaatsra Před 10 dny +1

    I believe their North America operations were once operated with stopovers with NRT and TPE and those services were interchangeable?

  • @sirf3rret
    @sirf3rret Před 10 dny +1

    nice

  • @superlogistics1
    @superlogistics1 Před 9 dny +1

    Hong Kong - Honolulu and San Francico when the San Francisco route had to stop in Honolulu back in the old days
    Also Hong Kong - Taipei back in Kai Tak
    Another interesting one I did was Canberra - Wellington before covid

    • @franzchong5889
      @franzchong5889 Před 5 dny +1

      an interesting one that existed was Melbourne to Singapore via Adelaide.My mother did the ADL-SIN part of the flight the then SQ228(WHICH THESE DAYS is a nonstop)on a 747-300 this was just after her father passed on in early 1991.she returned home on Qantas 767.what has fascinated me since 1996 to present day is ADL-SIN is now a stand alone service using a mix of a310,a340,777,a330,a350 and now the 787 in the last 28 years.

  • @ericdiaz6236
    @ericdiaz6236 Před 10 dny +1

    in december 2021 i flew from fra to jfk with singapore airlines

  • @Evolition180
    @Evolition180 Před 8 hodinami

    I used to take the Singapore Airlines Taipei - Los Angeles flight 👍

  • @jamesau4296
    @jamesau4296 Před 8 dny +1

    Cool to ask how airlines who operate fifth freedom flight choose which city to stopover for their fifth freedom flight.

  • @markkoh89
    @markkoh89 Před 10 dny +1

    there used to be singapore to barcelona to sao paulo too, SQ68 haha

  • @aaronadam4747
    @aaronadam4747 Před 10 dny

    Also recently sia ceased the rome-copenhagen and stockholm-moscow fifth freedom routes.

  • @romualdojoven8992
    @romualdojoven8992 Před 9 dny

    Yes, SQ25/26 ❤❤❤

  • @ronparrish6666
    @ronparrish6666 Před 10 dny

    Wish they would come back to Toronto

  • @TamAidan
    @TamAidan Před 10 dny

    Is the SIN-HKG-SFO service gone?

    • @jamesau4296
      @jamesau4296 Před 8 dny +1

      Yes, SQ now flying direct instead using A359

  • @goceeeng
    @goceeeng Před 8 dny

    i flew christchurch to Melbourne with SQ

  • @KO-xe8vj
    @KO-xe8vj Před 9 dny

    Do Ethiopian airlines. They have so many.

  • @pantsri
    @pantsri Před 2 dny

    Sq2 20years ago Sin-hkg-sfo
    Sq1 return

  • @elijahcollins9400
    @elijahcollins9400 Před 10 dny +9

    7:05 The 253-seat A350-941's (9V-SJA to 9V-SJH and 9V-SMA to 9V-SMZ) are NOT Star Alliance's lowest capacity widebody. In fact, they're not even the lowest capacity widebody in Singapore Airlines' fleet. SQ's seven A350-941ULR (9V-SGA to 9V-SGG) have configuration C67W94, only 161 seats. These ULR variants are only used in ultra long haul direct flights between Singapore and US.

    • @LongHaulbySimpleFlying
      @LongHaulbySimpleFlying  Před 9 dny

      Yes. We should have specified that it's Singapore Airlines' lowest-capacity non-ULR A350.

  • @Tpr_1808
    @Tpr_1808 Před 10 dny

    Forget the fitfth freedom flight. I want the ULR service

  • @openbabel
    @openbabel Před 10 dny +1

    I don't understand...the Singapore rout to Manchester route as shown takes it over an active war zone? Most carriers are using a longer southern European route

    • @d.b.cooper1
      @d.b.cooper1 Před 8 dny

      It’s just an animation. Not the actual route.

  • @JonathanStanley
    @JonathanStanley Před 10 dny

    SIN-FRA-JFK on an A380 once they up-gauge it again (and before they retire all their Whalejets)...

  • @xr6lad
    @xr6lad Před 10 dny

    @ 1:56. If you’re going to do shonky CGI images of planes make sure the freeway underneath actually aligns. Embarrassing a huge multi lane freeway suddenly stops mid picture and carries on several hundred metres to its left. .

  • @TimeToComeUntoChrist
    @TimeToComeUntoChrist Před 5 dny

    It should fly to usa

  • @kaffir76
    @kaffir76 Před 10 dny

    2:00 Ha-NAY-Da , not What you said (Ha NUH Da) 😊😊

  • @mindblown9
    @mindblown9 Před 10 dny

    RIP A380 JFK-FRA-SIN

  • @kingleolumaban5415
    @kingleolumaban5415 Před 9 dny

    .

  • @Icelandair_B767
    @Icelandair_B767 Před 7 dny

    Is there a mistake in the flight path? Why is the map of the SIN-FRA-JFK service directly overflying Ukrainian airspace ? I hope SQ are not overflying Ukraine. This brings back sinister memories of how an SQ flight was merely minutes directly behind MH17 on that horrible day in 2014.

  • @raymasraymas
    @raymasraymas Před 9 dny

    Around the turn of the century there used to be a SIN-BOM-MAN service. It used to benefit many Indian travellers heading to the north of England wanting to avoid London and Birmingham

  • @Andrew.-.-
    @Andrew.-.- Před 2 dny

    Surprised how poor the interior cabin looked on the aircraft with the poor passengers on board in the turbulence no better than any other airline