Singapore Airlines will resume nonstop service between the
United States and Singapore on Oct. 23 with daily flights from San Francisco.
The announcement comes just two weeks after fellow Star
Alliance member United Airlines began
its own San Francisco-Singapore daily service. Singapore's flight, using
Airbus A350-900s, will depart from San Francisco in the morning and arrive in
the early evening, while United's flight departs at night and arrives in
Singapore in the early morning. On the flights from Singapore to San Francisco,
both carriers depart and arrive in the morning.
Singapore Airlines currently flies daily from San Francisco
to Singapore via Hong Kong and from San Francisco-Singapore via Seoul. When it begins nonstop service, it will
reroute the Seoul flight to originate in Los Angeles, supplementing its daily
service from Los Angeles to Tokyo's Narita International Airport.
Last year, the carrier announced it would resume nonstop
service between Singapore and each Los Angeles and New York in 2018 using new
A350-900 Ultra-Long Range aircraft. It previously ended both those routes in
2013.
On Oct. 20, Singapore Airlines also will end
service to São Paulo, to which it flies three times weekly from Singapore via
Barcelona. It will continue to operate flights between Singapore and Barcelona.