Singapore Airlines achieves 100% lie-flat target for Australia and New Zealand markets

Singapore Airlines achieves 100% lie-flat target for Australia and New Zealand markets

The Blue Swan Daily, 21 August 2019 – Singapore Airlines (SIA) has set a 1-Nov-2019 date for transitioning to an all lie-flat operation in Australia and New Zealand, providing a consistent business class product that corporate customers have long been advocating.

The airline announced on 20-Aug-2019 that its four times weekly Singapore-Melbourne-Wellington service will be upgraded from Boeing 777-200s to Airbus A350-900s effective 1-Nov-2019, resulting in lie-flat seats for all flights to and from Australia.

SIA had announced earlier this month the upgrade of the last of its four daily Perth flights from A330-300s to 787-10s effective 1-Oct-2019. SIA upgraded in 2018 and early 2019 its other three Perth flights from A330s or 777s to A350s or 787s.…read more