Back in October we reported on SIA’s significant boost to its Bali services, hiking schedules from three to five times daily for the northern winter season from November 2022 to March 2023, with four out of every five services operated by the Boeing 787-10.
The flood of additional seats on the route at relatively short notice even led to over 4,000 KrisFlyer Saver award seats being loaded in Business Class during the five-month period, with some single days even boasting a total of 30 award seats in this cabin!
Selected flights downgrade in January 2023
Currently, only the early morning SQ934/SQ935 service between Singapore and Bali uses SIA’s ex-SilkAir Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which mirrors its pre-COVID operation with the same aircraft type as MI176/MI175.
The four subsequent flights each day in both directions use the newer wide-body Boeing 787-10, including the latest flat-bed seats in Business Class, with direct aisle access.
Singapore Airlines has updated its Bali flight schedule to show that from 4th January 2023 to 31st January 2023 the carrier’s daily SQ946/SQ947 evening service will be also operated by the Boeing 737-800 instead of the 787-10, in addition to the usual morning SQ934/SQ935 rotation.
Here’s the affected flight highlighted in the full schedule for this route.
Singapore Bali
10th November 2022
to 25th March 2023
| Days | |||||||||
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S | |||
 |
SQ934 737-800 |
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| SIN 06:55 |
DPS 09:35 |
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|
SQ936 787-10 |
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| SIN 08:20 |
DPS 11:05 |
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|
SQ938 787-10 |
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| SIN 09:05 |
DPS 11:50 |
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|
SQ944 787-10 |
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| SIN 16:20 |
DPS 19:05 |
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|
SQ946 787-10 737-800^ |
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| SIN 18:05 |
DPS 20:50 |
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^ 4th January 2023 to 31st January 2023
Bali Singapore
10th November 2022
to 25th March 2023
| Days | |||||||||
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S | |||
|
SQ935 737-800 |
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| DPS 10:30 |
SIN 13:05 |
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|
SQ937 787-10 |
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| DPS 12:05 |
SIN 14:55 |
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|
SQ939 787-10 |
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| DPS 13:00 |
SIN 15:40 |
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|
SQ945 787-10 |
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| DPS 20:15 |
SIN 22:55 |
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|
SQ947 787-10 737-800^ |
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| DPS 21:45 |
SIN 00:20* |
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^ 4th January 2023 to 31st January 2023
* Next day
This will reduce Boeing 787-10 service on the route to three times daily during this four-week period.
What’s the impact?
If you’re booked in Business Class it’s a significant downgrade from flat-bed seats with high privacy, good storage options and direct aisle access, like this:
to side-by-side recliners with little privacy (and a recline of just 8 inches), like this:
For most of our readers, these are certainly not seats to waste your KrisFlyer miles on.
If you’re connecting from a long-haul flight, from Europe for example, don’t count on getting an extra hour’s sleep on the Singapore – Bali sector with a seat like this in store.
In Economy Class there will be no device charging option on these flights, while both cabins lack a built-in entertainment system and have no Wi-Fi connectivity.