ANA & Singapore Expected To Form Joint Venture

Wouldn't there be more of a market from Frankfurt to NYC rather than Tokyo though? Or does Lufthansa already have over capacity in the market?

Hi Lucky,
Sorry for the off-topic, but I've been seeing a few comments around the blog and totally agree with them.

They have been mentioning about the images only loading when they scroll. This is really annoying when reading articles, especially trip reports.

Are there any plans on going back to the old way please?

Thanks

Debbie.

ANA and Singapore Airlines would dominate traffic between Singapore and Japan if this joint venture does eventuate. I wonder if they would have to give up Haneda slots for example, in the name of maintaining competitiveness in the market.

I do wish Singapore would fly from Europe to the west coast.

If ANA and Singapore form a joint venture, Singapore will have to start upping their game to compete because at the moment ANA beat them on all fronts by a significant amount.

I can't imagine United would be happy about this, but ANA is probably looking for more capacity out of JFK vs EWR.

I am not sure I see how this is a good idea. At first I was thinking this is great, I can fly ANA and SQ to and from Chicago and Singapore. Then I realized that UA and ANA already have a partnership for this route. Is SQ trying to limit flights through Haneda and Narita?

@ Memento - but do you want to fly UA metal? And what if you want first class? How does Polaris compete with that?

Lots of people in Singapore fly to NYC via other parts of Asia. I used to fly Cathay via HK. The HK to NYC flight was long. Given Singaporeans love their national carrier, it is another great option for them. Whilst you can earn "gold" star alliance status with partner airlines, you can only earn PPS status if you have an SQ flight number - so a codeshare with ANA would work. Having PPS status is a bonus as you jump to the front of the queue for flight changes (very useful when you travel a lot for work). I would also hope it means you can redeem Kris Flyer miles online for those flights.

I was about to say I don't see how this would ever get regulatory approval, but NH and LH somehow got their trans-Siberian JV approved even though it operates all but one of the nonstop flights between Japan and Germany, so I suppose anything is possible nowadays...

@Andrew Agreed. TransPac business awards are rare on United, and either way I prefer Japan/Singapore carrier cabins than any US airline's.

ANA is reducing SIN TYO service to 1 daily.

Maybe the simple fact of it all, is that ANA is suffering from chronic pilot shortage, and they know that SIN is a route that they can trust SQ to deliver great service.

As for NRT-JFK, I suspect, that Vistara's long haul network will be made of nonstop and one-stop options. I suspect, Vistara is going to try to realize Jet Airways' expansion ambitions. Vistara could, potentially use Tokyo and London as scissor hubs. India will anchor itself on 7 mega cities: Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Goa-Pune (standing in for Mumbai) and Hyderabad, and these will need nonstops to LAX, SFO, SEA, BOS, EWR, IAD, ORD, MCO, ATL, DFW, RDU.

Do not look down on NRT. It has, in many ways, taken over HKG's role, with Chinese and Japanese airlines having basically launched 2000 weekly flights to Japan in the last few months. Watch Skymark's rebirth at NRT: this may happen, if Seoul city government is unable to rally support to expand Gimpo. Gimpo was designed exactly like Haneda, which is designed to be a super compact airport capable of handling 200m pax if it comes to that.