Delayed: Singapore Airlines Plans New First & Business Class, A350 Retrofits - Singapore Airlines

RE: Singapore Airlines New First & Business Class, A350 Retrofits: What's The Latest Timeline?

JustinB — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:40:46 +0000

This has the potential to be a massive improvement. I shifted all my SIN-US flying to United Polaris Studio as it is so much more comfortable, but having SQ soft product would be welcome for that long of a flight.

RE: Singapore Airlines New First & Business Class, A350 Retrofits: What's The Latest Timeline?

yoloswag420 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:47:20 +0000

Tbh hard product is plateauing across the board. Beyond getting your own private bedroom like The Residence or something, there's only so much space someone can utilize on a flight. If it's already spacious enough to sleep, eat, and relax in, every incremental sqft of space is less and less useful. While they get a lot of positive PR for their A380 Suites, the soft product has always been what makes SQ standout because SQ otherwise has a very average hard product in business class.

RE: Singapore Airlines New First & Business Class, A350 Retrofits: What's The Latest Timeline?

Mike O. — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:28:46 +0000

"The expectation is that the new cabins will be unveiled in November 2026. I’m mighty curious to learn the details, so I guess we just have to be patient for a couple more months!" You mean a few more months or about 12 weeks ;) Once again, you have to appreciate the investment & effort for Singapore to come up with a bespoke product with the likes of Cathay, ANA, Qatar, Emirates and not just an off the shelf seat and apply your own CMF; they seem to have put in effort on the exterior shell of the seat as well as the carpeting. As they've worked with Jamco before, is it possible this could be based on the Quest platform? I recall someone basing this product off off the Jamco Quest.

RE: Singapore Airlines New First & Business Class, A350 Retrofits: What's The Latest Timeline?

1990_ — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:13:38 +0000

This is long-overdue. If SQ goes with Safran Unity, even if they customize it, that would be a major upgrade from the current all-or-nothing lie-flat that they have now on the world's longest flight (a359-ULR). If we need to wait a little longer (November 2026, etc.) for more updates, that's fine.

Delayed: Singapore Airlines Plans New First & Business Class, A350 Retrofits

Ben Schlappig — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:49:02 +0000

In November 2024, Singapore Airlines announced a huge investment into its premium passenger experience, which will see the introduction of all-new cabin products, plus the expansion of first class. These cabins will be retrofitted on dozens of Airbus A350s, and will also be available on newly delivered Boeing 777-9s in the future.

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RE: Singapore Airlines Plans New First & Business Class, A350 Retrofits: Launching Early 2027

Enzo — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:00:47 +0000

From the side view their new business class are more like Collins horizon suite on Turkish airlines and air India A350-900 business class

Enzo — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:00:47 +0000

From the side view their new business class are more like Collins horizon suite on Turkish airlines and air India A350-900 business class

RE: Singapore Airlines New First & Business Class, A350 Retrofits: What's The Latest Timeline?

Caesar — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:48:01 +0000

Hey, actually I find the new more extend photo's of those business class in their annual report last year, I put it inside my google drive link, feel free to take a look and do analyze it hahhaa Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14enOi9qh4FyjeFtfv_q6_hGQOeG7NRGp?usp=sharing

Caesar — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:48:01 +0000

RE: Singapore Airlines New First & Business Class, A350 Retrofits: What's The Latest Timeline?

sidl — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:36:42 +0000

I wonder if its a real production delay of the existing design....or, they went back to the drawing board to change a few features to be competitive and "revolutionary" since other airlines have since announced new seats since SQ's initial teaser....and now this ongoing delay...