Singapore Airlines Retiring 26 Planes, Including Some A380s

They stopped flying the A380 to Paris a while back, I think, even before the pandemic.

Meanwhile, aviation authorities have designated Northern Delaware as National Defense Airspace. What do you make of that?

Check out the availability to New York late next summer. It looks like they've already accounted for a switch to the 77W as they're only selling four F seats. Same way they telegraphed the switch the new new A380 on the Sydney route a few years ago.

Ben, as an interested observer rather than someone with any deep insight, in light of SQ not retiring all of its A380 fleet, I suspect you're right that they will use them on Sydney and Melbourne routes, among some others. They were busy routes for both SQ and QF before this. That would point to the likelihood that QF would also reintroduce theirs on those routes. I can't see the other QF routes having the demand for the A380 any time soon with the state of the pandemic in the US and UK, so Singapore routes may be the first that prompt QF to reactivate them. All of that will depend, however on the speed with which the Australian government opens up outbound international travel for Australians, and to where.

I will miss flying the 777-300 for 2-3hr "short hauls" from Singapore. The lower demand routes are prolly gonna be replaced w/ Silk Air's 737s for the next year or so...sad!

I see the slow A380 death. Maybe 5-6 years from now, we'll see Emirates, Qantas, British Airways, Singapore, ANA, China Southern. Maybe in 10 years, we'll see Emirates, Qantas, British Airways, China Southern.

Bad news if you're an A380 pilot. Seems it's slowly going to disappear as an aircraft type.
@lucky Did Thai already retire it's A380s?
ANA must be wishing it hadn't just got 3 new A380s. Maybe they will have the shortest lifespan is any commercial aircraft?!

Wonder how they'll serve Koh Samui as I don't think they can get in there with a 737. Whenever the A319s have gone tech the flights have been cancelled or had to wait for the remaining A319 to do two rotations.

Handed over to Bangkok Airways I imagine, they already codeshare on the evening flights. But lack of Krisflyer redemption will be a shame, the fare on this short hop can be eye-watering !

Going to regret never flying the a380... Hopefully i can still visit one in a museum some day like we can with Concordes

Pre pandemic they had stopped flying the A380 to Melbourne. I used to love the A380 in F to JFK.

STOP RETIRING THE MOST COMFORTABLE AIRCRAFT! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE AIRLINES?

Airlines should be legally barred from retiring comfortable four engine planes. That'll teach them to focus on product instead of trying to minimize their cost base as much as possible

A380 is a fuel guzzler no doubt and it will make sense to reduce operating such airline in view of the low passenger load. However when the market recovers, the A380 will fulfill the needs to carry more passengers in a single flight and perhaps also very cost efficient if the crude price remains below US60 per barrel.

SIA current predicament besides COVID-19 is because of the hedging of jet fuel for 2020 which cause them to bleed hundred of millions.

A great aircraft to fly with but the maintenance is high. It’s just like owning a RR car which is comfortable yet come with expensive parts.

Looking forward to mainline SQ service within ASEAN countries (PEN, KUL, KCH, BKI, HAN, SGN, etc). Flights to SIN remain slightly higher but not to nearby destinations. Hence, buy the ticket to a point beyond SIN and get a “stopover” for free.

Up to date information First Qantas A 380 returns to service on 11 January 2022 on SYD/ LAX service Second one in two weeks time . Balance 10 aircraft by July 2022.