The slow increase in Singapore Airlines flights over the last few months sees the airline moving towards around 8% of usual capacity levels by October 2020, with the carrier currently deploying around 56 of its passenger aircraft on a mixture of both regular and cargo-only flights based on the last two weeks.
Operation of the airline’s less efficient Boeing 777-300 and Boeing 777-300ER aircraft types has been almost completely eliminated since our last update, even on cargo flights, with the airline concentrating its services on Airbus A350s and Boeing 787s almost across the board.
Meanwhile another Airbus A380 has made its way to Alice Springs for long-term storage and SIA has restored six former NokScoot Boeing 777-200s into its registered fleet, following the demise of that carrier a couple of months ago.
Five SIA aircraft types remain firmly out of service, including all Airbus A330s and Airbus A380s.
Headline numbers
Here are the Singapore Airlines passenger fleet totals at 12th August 2020.
| CAAS Database: | 131 | ||
| For disposal: | -7 | ||
| In Service: | 124 | ||
| In maintenance / stored: | -68 | ||
| Active: | 56 |
The official registered aircraft data in combination with analysis of actual flight movements over the last few weeks allows us to determine the actual ‘in service’ fleet (available to the airline) of 124 planes at 12th August 2020, 56 of which are currently active.
Click here to see the official CAAS list of registered aircraft in Singapore at 31st July 2020.
Singapore Airlines Fleet at 12th August 2020
This table shows the Singapore Airlines fleet including how many of each aircraft type are legally registered (‘Registered’), available to the airline (‘In Service’) and currently operating revenue passenger or cargo flights (‘Active’).
| Type |
Registered | In Service | Active |
A330-300 (full details) |
8 |
8 | 0 |
A350-900 (full details) |
26 | 26 | 23 |
| A350-900 Regional(full details) |
15 |
15 | 14 |
| A350-900 ULR(full details) |
7 | 7 | 0 |
A380-800 v1 (full details) |
6 | 6 | 0 |
| A380-800 v2(full details) |
5 | 5 | 0 |
| A380-800 v3(full details) |
8 | 8 | 0 |
777-200 (full details) |
7 | 0 | 0 |
| 777-200ER(full details) |
3 | 3 | 0 |
777-300 (full details) |
4 | 4 | 1 |
| 777-300ER(full details) |
27 | 27 | 4 |
787-10 (full details) |
15 | 15 | 14 |
| Total | 131 | 124 | 56 |
Correct at 12th August 2020.
Here are the differences between the registered and in service fleet totals in the table above:
No longer in service (but still legally registered)
- 777-200 9V-SQJ has already stopped flying for disposal.
- 777-200s 9V-SRG, -SRH, -SRL, SRJ, SRP and SRQ are ex-NokScoot aircraft and re-joined the Singapore Airlines registered fleet in July 2020. They are all stored in Alice Springs and will not operate again for the airline. For eventual disposal.
Fleet activity
Only five aircraft types remain in service with the airline, as shown in the table below outlining the number in use at each of our recent fleet update ‘snapshots’.
| SIA fleet activity timeline | ||||
| Aircraft | Apr 2020 |
May 2020 |
Jun 2020 |
Aug 2020 |
| Airbus A350 | 16 | 14 | 21 | 23 |
| Airbus A350 Regional | 10 | 9 | 12 | 14 |
| Boeing 777-300 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Boeing 777-300ER | 18 | 18 | 11 | 4 |
| Boeing 787-10 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 |
Almost all Airbus A350s and Boeing 787-10s are now in consistent use, while the deployment of Boeing 777-300s and -300ERs has been progressively reduced to almost zero in recent weeks.
Here’s a graphical look at the active vs. stored fleet, including the average daily utilisation of the active aircraft during the last 14 days.
| Type | ■ Active / □ Inactive | Average Daily Utilisation | |
| A330-300 | □□□□□□□□ | 0% | — |
| A350 | ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■□□□ | 88% | 7.9h |
| A350 R | ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■□ | 93% | 6.2h |
| A350 ULR | □□□□□□□ | 0% | — |
| A380 | □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ | 0% |