I flew the PIA 5th Manchester-Houston route in 2005 with a 777-200ER AP-BGK. Lovely crew and a great flight.

@d.b.cooper1

2 ай бұрын

Wow that’s super niche. I recall the PIA 747’s info Manchester being the first 747’s I saw as a kid. Looked insane. Now see A380s on final almost daily which equally never get dull

It would be interesting to see what other 5th freedom flights are out there.

Fly SFO-HKG portion in 1991, but just because a nearly 24hr. UA delay(!), and I fell asleep most of the time, just like Jack Ryan in "The Hunt for Red October" ending... Also took SIN-MXP-BCN round-trip for watch late season FC Barcelona games in 2011.

I use MAN > IAH > MAN often. Lousy miles credited to Mileageplus, but the service when compared to UA from LHR is worth it

@d.b.cooper1

2 ай бұрын

Always wondered if anyone boards at Manchester? Is it mostly leisure or business travellers? I get the connections but still seems odd

I have flown the Singapore airlines Sydney-Canberra-Singapore service .. it was the only overnight service from Sydney to Singapore with 777

During the Northern Hemisphere Winter season, Singapore Airlines operates an A350 on its Davao-Cebu route.

I was on their old SIN-MEL-WLG between MEL-WLG in 2019. It was WLG's only wide body flight from memory.

Took my 1st biz class flight from Barcelona to Milan and back to Singapore. That was memorable.

I flew the Singapore Airlines fifth freedom route from Copenhagen to Rome in May 2022. Best intra European Flight ever

I recently saw a video from Planes, Trains, Everything on the Malpenza-Barcelona run

i flew from IAH - MAN as i was a transit and went onwards to LHR -DEL. I usually go to houston once a year. and i have taken multiple layovers as DEL - IAH is not connected directly. The one i prefer the most are as follows DEL - DXB - IAH On emirates 777 then A380 DEL - DOH - IAH on Qatar airways 787 then A350 DEL - LHR - IAH on Virgin atlantic then british airways A350 and 787. (Edit starts from here) I prefer to take these route to IAH from DEL but most of the times i take either emirates or QA I wish that AI would have 5th flights from DEL - IAH Via manchester or Madrid.

I believe in the late nineties there was a short period a SIN-CDG-AMS route with the B747-400. Which kinda odd, because the AMS-SIN flight was a direct flight. It was a one time experience, I was never a SIA flight from SIN to AMS and vice versa with a stop anymore.

Back in early 2000 / late 90s, SIA flew SIN - Karachi - Lahore - SIN twice a week and the other two times a week flew SIN - Lahore - Karachi - SIN using A340-300E. Could not carry revenue paying passengers between Karachi and Lahore. It was also rumoured that since jet fuel was excessively expensive in Pakistan at the time, the A340 would carry most of its fuel to get there and back, perhaps topping up only a little.

Singapore - Barcelona - São Paulo which ran until 2016 I think. And briefly they also did Singapore - Canberra - Wellington, also known as the Capital Express few years ago

@alexandertraveler510

2 ай бұрын

Barcelona São Paulo is not as strong as Madrid São Paulo

@kaffir76

2 ай бұрын

Welcome to KZread! 😊😊

Not been onboard any SQ fifth freedom flight, but I have been onboard Emirates fifth freedom from HK to Dubai via Bangkok. What special about that is the crew don’t ask us to get off the plane in Bangkok but Thai police get onboard to do the security screening for us.

1999 - AMS - EWR on the 744 ... SQ also operated Amsterdam to Chicago for a short while, but that was ended after the September 11 attacks of 2001.

Have done ADL-SIN-FRA-JFK with a stop in Germany before continuing to USA... Followed by JFK-FRA-SIN-ADL with a stop in Singapore before continuing to Australia... Whole trip in 2012 was Airbus... SIA-JFK part of trip A380... ADL-SIN was A330...

@flxme1_

2 ай бұрын

thats 3 stops! wow! however couldn't you have done a one stop itenerary via dubai/doha/abhu dhabi?

@user-ow9dg2xj7y

2 ай бұрын

Why couldnt have you went via sydney then onwards to LAX then NWR/JFK?

Hong Kong - Honolulu and San Francico when the San Francisco route had to stop in Honolulu back in the old days Also Hong Kong - Taipei back in Kai Tak Another interesting one I did was Canberra - Wellington before covid

@franzchong5889

Ай бұрын

an interesting one that existed was Melbourne to Singapore via Adelaide.My mother did the ADL-SIN part of the flight the then SQ228(WHICH THESE DAYS is a nonstop)on a 747-300 this was just after her father passed on in early 1991.she returned home on Qantas 767.what has fascinated me since 1996 to present day is ADL-SIN is now a stand alone service using a mix of a310,a340,777,a330,a350 and now the 787 in the last 28 years.

Plus, there aren't really many Justified fifth freedom operations given that newer planes can fly longer(A35K can fly 16100km enough for SIN-ATL). Not many countries are willing to give up their protection to local carrier

I’m pretty sure this summer they will bring the a380 back to the Frankfurt New York routes as i have a booking from Singapore to Frankfurt in august and Singapore airlines says that the a380 will operate the flight.

I believe their North America operations were once operated with stopovers with NRT and TPE and those services were interchangeable?

AMS - EWR and AMS - ORD, that was great and not expensive

nice

in december 2021 i flew from fra to jfk with singapore airlines

Cool to ask how airlines who operate fifth freedom flight choose which city to stopover for their fifth freedom flight.

Most of British Airways and Virgin’s flights to the Caribbean follow the A to B to C formula. Mainly out of Gatwick but a few from Heathrow.

there used to be singapore to barcelona to sao paulo too, SQ68 haha

I used to take the Singapore Airlines Taipei - Los Angeles flight 👍

Also recently sia ceased the rome-copenhagen and stockholm-moscow fifth freedom routes.

Wish they would come back to Toronto

Yes, SQ25/26 ❤❤❤

i flew christchurch to Melbourne with SQ

Sq2 20years ago Sin-hkg-sfo Sq1 return

Is the SIN-HKG-SFO service gone?

@jamesau4296

2 ай бұрын

Yes, SQ now flying direct instead using A359

Do Ethiopian airlines. They have so many.

It should fly to usa

Forget the fitfth freedom flight. I want the ULR service

SIN-FRA-JFK on an A380 once they up-gauge it again (and before they retire all their Whalejets)...

@ 1:56. If you’re going to do shonky CGI images of planes make sure the freeway underneath actually aligns. Embarrassing a huge multi lane freeway suddenly stops mid picture and carries on several hundred metres to its left. .

2:00 Ha-NAY-Da , not What you said (Ha NUH Da) 😊😊

7:05 The 253-seat A350-941's (9V-SJA to 9V-SJH and 9V-SMA to 9V-SMZ) are NOT Star Alliance's lowest capacity widebody. In fact, they're not even the lowest capacity widebody in Singapore Airlines' fleet. SQ's seven A350-941ULR (9V-SGA to 9V-SGG) have configuration C67W94, only 161 seats. These ULR variants are only used in ultra long haul direct flights between Singapore and US.

@LongHaulbySimpleFlying

2 ай бұрын

Yes. We should have specified that it's Singapore Airlines' lowest-capacity non-ULR A350.

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I don't understand...the Singapore rout to Manchester route as shown takes it over an active war zone? Most carriers are using a longer southern European route

@d.b.cooper1

2 ай бұрын

It’s just an animation. Not the actual route.

RIP A380 JFK-FRA-SIN

Is there a mistake in the flight path? Why is the map of the SIN-FRA-JFK service directly overflying Ukrainian airspace ? I hope SQ are not overflying Ukraine. This brings back sinister memories of how an SQ flight was merely minutes directly behind MH17 on that horrible day in 2014.

Around the turn of the century there used to be a SIN-BOM-MAN service. It used to benefit many Indian travellers heading to the north of England wanting to avoid London and Birmingham

You lose London to Singapore Singapore airlines sq321

Surprised how poor the interior cabin looked on the aircraft with the poor passengers on board in the turbulence no better than any other airline