Singapore Airlines maintains 30 routes in November 2020

Singapore Airlines and SilkAir have extended their published passenger flight schedules until the end of November 2020, maintaining their previously announced network of cities for three more months, despite some initial positivity around the potential for tourism ‘green lanes’ later this year.

This extends the confirmed timetable from 25th October 2020, the start of the northern winter season, through to 30th November 2020, with the previous update valid only until the termination of the summer season on 24th October 2020.

This is the longest ‘forward window’ we’ve had to look at SIA’s proposed flight schedules since the COVID-19 situation took hold, spanning over three months, so we can almost certainly expect some changes and/or additional routes and frequencies to be added on an ad-hoc basis in the coming weeks and months, especially if any of those ‘green lanes’ do materialise.

Several frequencies have been increased, including Jakarta (from 5 to 10 flights per week) and Auckland (4 to 5 flights per week).

London is still the airline’s busiest route, with 12 weekly services offering capacity for over 6,000 passengers. Daily connections are also maintained or established to and from Hong Kong, Melbourne, Sydney and at ‘group level’ (SIA and SilkAir combined) to and from Kuala Lumpur.

Overall, schedules lift to around 11% of usual levels in November 2020.

  Headline figures

In total SIA and SilkAir will fly 1,010 passenger flights during November 2020, a 13% increase on the 896 services being operated during October 2020.

No new routes have been added since our last update, when Surabaya joined the fold among news of some frequency increases on other routes.

SIA’s low-cost subsidiary Scoot recently increased its September schedule to 166 passenger flights, reaching 3% of normal levels. The airline has yet to announce its October and November 2020 flying programme.

Singapore Airlines Schedule

Here’s a map of the 20 Asia-Pacific destinations being served by Singapore Airlines in November 2020, including the recently announced Surabaya reinstatement.

In addition, a single US destination and nine European cities will continue to be served (Singapore Airlines classifies Istanbul as Europe in its schedule listing).

Frequency increases in the latest update include:

• Auckland (4/wk ➔ 5/wk)
• Brisbane (2/wk ➔ 4/wk)
• Christchurch (2/wk ➔ 3/wk)
• Jakarta (5/wk ➔ 10/wk)
• Melbourne (2/wk ➔ 7/wk)
• Osaka (2/wk ➔ 3/wk)
• Seoul (5/wk ➔ 6/wk)
• Sydney (5/wk ➔ 7/wk)

These are in addition to already announced increases to Adelaide (1/wk ➔ 2/wk), Christchurch (1/wk ➔ 2/wk) and London (7/wk ➔ 12/wk) from September 2020.

Brisbane gets its own non-stop service from Singapore on two days per week from November (SQ255), in addition to the existing flight via Sydney (SQ288) on two further days.

Singapore Airlines will be operating the following passenger flights to and from 30 cities during November 2020.

All flights not listed below are cancelled during this period, or will operate as cargo-only services.