Singapore Airlines has scaled back its active passenger aircraft total slightly to 72 in recent weeks, from 74 in January 2021, as the carrier prepares to introduce Boeing 737-800s into its fleet from March 2021. Airbus A350s and Boeing 787s continue to cover the bulk of the operating network.
Meanwhile another Airbus A330 has departed Singapore back to its lessor, dwindling the total in this (stored) fleet to just four aircraft, and there’s been an Airbus A380 ‘shuffle’ in anticipation of the next cabin refit at Changi.
Fleet totals
Here are the Singapore Airlines passenger fleet totals at 27th February 2021.
| CAAS Database: | 132 | ||
| For disposal: |
-26 |
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| In Service: | 106 | ||
| In maintenance / stored: |
-34 |
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| Active: | 72 |
The official registered aircraft data in combination with recent retirement announcements and analysis of actual flight movements over the last few weeks allows us to determine the actual ‘in service’ fleet (available to the airline) of 106 planes at 27th February 2021, 72 of which are recently active.
Click here to see the official CAAS list of registered aircraft in Singapore at 31st January 2021.
SIA Passenger Fleet at 27th February 2021
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) |
4 |
0 | 0 |
A350-900 (full details) |
26 | 26 | 25 |
| A350-900 Regional(full details) |
19 |
19 | 17 |
| A350-900 ULR(full details) |
7 | 7 | 6 |
A380-800 v1 (full details) |
6 | 0 | 0 |
| A380-800 v2(full details) |
4 | 3 | 0 |
| A380-800 v3(full details) |
9 | 9 | 0 |
777-200 (full details) |
8 | 0 | 0 |
| 777-200ER(full details) |
3 | 0 | 0 |
777-300 (full details) |
4 | 0 | 0 |
| 777-300ER(full details) |
27 | 27 | 9 |
787-10 (full details) |
15 | 15 | 15 |
| Total | 132 | 106 | 72 |
Following confirmation that all the airline’s remaining Airbus A330s, Boeing 777-200s, Boeing 777-200ERs and Boeing 777-300s will not be returning to the fleet after COVID-19, in addition to seven older Airbus A380s, we have removed these from the ‘In Service’ column.
This reflects a future fleet of 106 aircraft, plus future near-term deliveries of Airbus A350s and Boeing 787-10s.
There will also a nine Boeing 737-800s and an unknown number of Boeing 737 MAX 8s joining the fleet in 2021, as the SilkAir merger enters its final stage.
Fleet activity
Only four aircraft types are currently in service with the airline, as shown in the table below outlining the number in use at each of our monthly fleet update ‘snapshots’.
An aircraft is considered ‘active’ if it has flown at least one passenger or cargo-only flight in the last 14 days.
| SIA fleet activity timeline (2020) | |||||||
| A350 |
B773 |
B77W |
B787 |
Total |
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| LH |
R |
ULR |
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| Apr | 16 | 10 | — | 4 | 18 | 15 | 63 |
| May | 14 | 9 | — | 3 | 18 | 15 | 59 |
| Jun | 21 | 12 | — | 2 | 11 | 15 | 61 |
| Aug | 23 | 14 | — | 1 | 4 | 14 | 56 |
| Sep | 24 | 13 | — | 1 | 7 | 12 | 57 |
| Oct | 24 | 13 | — | 1 | 4 | 12 | 54 |
| Nov | 25 | 17 | — | — | 10 | 14 | 66 |
| Dec | 26 | 18 | 3 | — | 9 | 14 | 70 |
| Jan 2021 |
26 | ||||||