Singapore Airlines will begin flying non-stop between Singapore and Los Angeles on November 2, 2018.
According to the airline, the new flight will be initially be operated by an Airbus A350-900ULR three times per week. Daily operations will start from November 9, 2018. From December 7, 2018, another thrice-weekly flight will be added.
With the introduction of the new flight, Singapore Airlines will terminate its one-stop flight to LA via Seoul from December 1, 2018. The other daily one-stop flight to LA via Tokyo Narita will be maintained.
Singapore Airlines will also add a thrice-weekly flight with an A350-900ULR to its non-stop flight between Singapore and San Francisco, currently operated daily with an A350-900. The airline also serves San Francisco with a daily Boeing 777-300ER via Hong Kong.
Singapore Airlines will become the first airline to operate the A350-900ULR when it takes delivery of the first of seven in September 2018. The carrier announced this May that it would be using the ultra-long-range variant to relaunch a non-stop flight between Singapore and Newark on October 11, 2018.
Singapore Airlines currently has 21 A350-900s in service and 46 more on order, including the seven ULRs.
The schedules for the new flights are as follows.
SQ38 |
Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays [daily from November 9, 2018] |
SIN 20:45 |
19:55 LAX |
SQ37 |
LAX 22:25 |
08:15 SIN [+2] |
SQ36 |
Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays [from December 1, 2018] |
SIN 08:20 |
07:30 LAX |
SQ37 |
LAX 09:15 |
19:05 SIN [+1] |
SQ34 |
Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays [daily from November 9, 2018] |
SIN 15:20 |
13:50 SFO |
SQ33 |
SFO 20:10 |
05:40 SIN [+2] |