![]() ![]() Star Alliance carrier United Airlines has a large hub at Newark Airport The Newark restoration will also see Singapore Airlines reunite with Star Alliance partner United Airlines, which has a large hub at the New Jersey airport, enhancing connections for many travellers flying to and from other East Coast cities. passenger destinations, having also added year-round Vancouver flights during the pandemic and made a return to Seattle in the process. With a restart of Newark flights in March 2022, Singapore Airlines will have returned to all its pre-COVID U.S. In 2019, the airline’s last full year of operations from New York before COVID, it carried 163,686 passengers from the city (Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics), but this new capacity hike from March 2022 will see SIA offer an equivalent of 289,445 annual departure seats from the city. Singapore Airlines will operate non-stop to New York twice per day using Airbus A350 ULR aircraft from late March, in addition to an A380 via Frankfurt. Singapore Airlines first launched flights to and from New York JFK Airport on 1st July 1992, with Boeing 747-400s operating six times weekly three via Frankfurt and the other three via Brussels.Īt the time SIA was the only airline in the world to serve the Far East from the USA via both the westbound (Pacific) and the eastbound (Atlantic) routes, with these New York flights complementing its existing West Coast flights to Singapore via Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. “This will be the first time that SIA will operate three daily services to the city, and is part of the Airline’s continued efforts to strengthen its connectivity to the United States of America.” SIA spokesperson to Mainly Miles 30 years of New York flights “We can confirm that Singapore Airlines will be operating three daily flights between Singapore and New York from 27 March 2022. Here’s what SIA told us about its ‘big plans for the big apple’, as the airline approaches its 30th anniversary flying to New York later this year. The good news is this reinstated link will run alongside non-stop A350 ULR services to and from New York’s JFK Airport, which were launched on 9th November 2020, and will also coincide with an upgrade of the daily New York JFK via Frankfurt route to the Airbus A380. ![]()
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