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.