As we reported in May and July Singapore Airlines will re-start ultra long-haul routes to New York’s Newark Airport from October this year followed shortly afterwards with flights to Los Angeles, this time replacing a fuel-thirsty A340-500 with the more efficient twin-jet A350-900ULR. Some additional non-stop services to San Francisco will also receive the A350ULR from late November.
As we mentioned in our article announcing the non-stop Los Angeles connection, we did want to revisit the saver award availability in Business Class on the A350ULR flights with a dedicated analysis. Some other blogs have reported improvements in the last few days, so it seemed like a good time to complete our analysis.
Note that we concentrated on New York (Newark) and Los Angeles, since San Francisco will continue to be served non-stop with the non-ULR A350, with just three additional A350ULR flights from 28th November.
We only focussed on Business Class Saver awards as we think these will be of most interest to our readers. The miles redemption rates for Premium Economy on these flights are really not competitive at around 75% of the miles needed for a Business Class redemption.
