Singapore Airlines announces schedule through to March 2023

Singapore Airlines has finalised its flight schedules including days of operation and aircraft type allocation across its network for the upcoming northern winter travel season, which means we now have a firm idea of where and when the carrier will be flying through to the end of March 2023.

Although flights for this period were already loaded for some time, many frequencies and aircraft types in particular were based on a ‘copy-paste’ of the pre-COVID schedules, and therefore weren’t necessarily accurate until now.

An additional daily Airbus A380 to and from London is on the cards, as we recently revealed, while there’s a third daily Bali flight from November and double-daily Paris services in the pipeline from December.

Some capacity reductions are planned, however, including a drop from five to four times daily for Bangkok flights, and a slimmed-down schedule to both Cairns and Darwin.

The overall passenger network will stand at 72 destinations for the mainline carrier this winter, with around 65% of pre-COVID capacity by flight volumes restored.

Headline figures

In total Singapore Airlines will fly over 1,680 passenger flights per week by March 2023, its highest total since schedules were slashed in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

That’s around 65% of the pre-pandemic monthly total operated on the combined SilkAir / SIA network in January 2020. SilkAir has now been fully merged into SIA.

Singapore Airlines schedule

Here’s how the flight frequencies and aircraft types on the short-haul and Asia network will look during the upcoming season, which starts on 30th October 2022 and runs through to 25th March 2023.

The latest updated schedules including days of operation are available at the Singapore Airlines website.

On the short-haul network there’s a reduction in Bangkok flights from five times daily to four, with the early morning SQ706/705 flights removed from the schedule for the winter season.

Surprisingly, the airline’s seat capacity to and from Bangkok this winter is only 60% of pre-COVID levels, despite full border reopening.

Hong Kong and Hyderabad also see frequency cuts, though there are significant increases seen for Bengaluru, Denpasar Bali, Seoul and Tokyo.

Many of our readers will be particularly pleased to see a third daily Boeing 787 Bali flight on the cards, with a reintroduction of the early morning SQ936/937 service, hopefully adding to award redemption opportunities on this popular route.

Kuala Lumpur remains the most frequently served route by the airline network-wide, with 44 weekly services in each direction, around two-thirds of pre-COVID frequencies.

Here’s how the long-haul and Australia network looks during the winter season.