Singapore Airlines has finalised its flight schedules including days of operation and aircraft type allocation across its network for the upcoming 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 2025.

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 previous year’s schedules.

With the airline continuing to expand and tweak its network following the COVID-19 pandemic, that meant these plans weren’t necessarily accurate, until now.

There are new routes to Beijing Daxing and Sapporo to look forward to in the coming months, though regulatory wranglings for Chengdu, Chongqing, Shenzhen and Xiamen see those cities showing as suspended again from late October.

On the flip side, Barcelona will be served non-stop during the winter season for the first time this year, while Adelaide and Auckland routes are hiked to record frequencies for the carrier.

SIA’s overall passenger network will stand at 79 destinations this winter, an increase of eight compared to last winter, with around 83% of pre-COVID capacity by flight volumes restored.

Headline numbers

In total Singapore Airlines will fly 2,292 passenger flights per week by late March 2025, its highest total since schedules were slashed in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

That’s around 83% 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 27th October 2024 and runs through to 29th March 2025.

Singapore Airlines Routes Short-haul & Asia (27 Oct 2024 – 29 Mar 2025)
Destination	Dates	Frequency	Acft
Ahmedabad	All	7/wk	359 MH
Bangkok	All	42/wk	359 MH 787
Beijing Capital	27OCT24 – 28DEC24	21/wk	359 MH 787 77W
	29DEC24 – 11JAN25	14/wk	787 77W
	12JAN25 – 15FEB25	21/wk	359 MH 787 77W
	16FEB25 – 01MAR25	14/wk	787 77W
	02MAR25 – 29MAR25	21/wk	359 MH 787 77W
Beijing Daxing	11NOV24 – 01JAN25	7/wk (new route)	787
	02JAN25 – 05JAN25	7/wk	359 MH
	06JAN25 – 18JAN25	0/wk	—
	19JAN25 – 29MAR25	7/wk	787
Bengaluru	All	14/wk	359 MH 7M8
Brunei	27OCT24 – 23NOV24	7/wk	7M8
	24NOV24 – 22DEC24	5/wk
	23DEC24 – 29MAR25	7/wk
Busan	All	4/wk	7M8
Chennai	All	14/wk	359 MH 7M8 787
Cebu	All	7/wk	7M8
Chengdu	Suspended (7/wk till 26 Oct 2024)		7M8
Chongqing	Suspended (7/wk till 26 Oct 2024)		7M8
Cochin	27OCT24 – 31JAN25	14/wk (was 10/wk)	7M8
	01FEB25 – 29MAR25	10/wk
Colombo	All	7/wk	787
Da Nang	All	14/wk	7M8
Denpasar (Bali)	All	42/wk	7M8 787
Dhaka	All	7/wk	787
Delhi	All	14/wk	388 787
Fukuoka	All	7/wk	787
Guangzhou	All	7/wk (was 14/wk)	787
Hanoi	All	14/wk	359 MH 7M8
Ho Chi Minh	All	21/wk (was 19/wk)	359 LH 7M8
Hong Kong	27OCT24 – 03DEC24	42/wk (was 35/wk)	359 LH 359 MH 388* 77W
	04DEC24 – 31DEC24	35/wk
	01JAN25 – 29MAR25	42/wk
Hyderabad	All	12/wk	359 MH 7M8
Jakarta	All	42/wk	359 MH 359 LH 77W
Kathmandu	All	7/wk	738 787
Kolkata	All	7/wk	359 MH 7M8
Kuala Lumpur	27OCT24 – 21DEC24	54/wk	359 MH 359 LH 738 7M8
	22DEC24 – 19JAN25	50/wk
	20JAN25 – 29MAR25	54/wk
Malé	All	14/wk	359 MH
Manila	All	28/wk	359 MH 787
Medan	All	14/wk	7M8
Mumbai	All	16/wk	359 MH 359 LH 388
Nagoya	All	7/wk	787
Osaka	All	21/wk	787
Penang	27OCT24 – 31DEC24	35/wk	738 7M8
	01JAN25 – 24JAN25	28/wk
	25JAN25 – 29MAR25	35/wk
Phnom Penh	27OCT24 – 16NOV24	18/wk (was 21/wk)	359 MH 7M8
	17NOV24 – 24DEC24	21/wk
	25DEC24 – 02JAN25	19/wk
	03JAN25 – 29MAR25	21/wk
Phuket	27OCT24 – 18JAN25	42/wk (was 35/wk)	738 7M8
	19JAN25 – 28JAN25	39/wk
	29JAN25 – 04FEB25	42/wk
	05FEB25 – 18FEB25	39/wk
	19FEB25 – 29MAR25	42/wk
Seoul	All	28/wk	359 MH 787
Sapporo	01DEC24 – 30JAN25	5/wk (seasonal)	359 MH
Shanghai	All	28/wk (was 35/wk)	359 LH 388** 77W 787
Shenzhen	Suspended (7/wk till 26 Oct 2024)		7M8
Siem Reap	All	14/wk (was 7/wk)	738 7M8
Surabaya	All	19/wk	359 MH 7M8
Taipei	27OCT24 – 28FEB25	14/wk	787
	01MAR25 – 29MAR25	18/wk	359 LH 787
Tokyo Haneda	All	21/wk	359 MH 77W
Tokyo Narita	All	14/wk	787 77W
Xiamen	Suspended (7/wk till 26 Oct 2024)		7M8
Yangon	All	7/wk	7M8
Total (by March 2025)		782/wk

* 16 Jan – 31 Jan only
** 15 Jan – 31 Jan only

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

The destinations with the highest flight frequencies on the short-haul and Asia network are Bangkok, Bali, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Phuket, with at least six daily flights to and from each of these cities.

Singapore Airlines will be adding Beijing Daxing flights from 11th November, but elsewhere in China Guangzhou frequencies are halving from twice daily to once daily, while Chengdu, Chongqing, Shenzhen and Xiamen links show as suspended again from 27th October 2024.

For those four cities, the issue is likely to be another temporary one while the carrier awaits local regulatory approvals, a pattern that now seems to recur every season with these routes!

Hong Kong sees an increase to six daily flights during the upcoming winter season, finally matching pre-COVID frequencies for terminator services to the city, but still short of the seven daily flights operated in ‘normal times’, since that tally included the SQ2/1 flight that continued to and from San Francisco.

Singapore Airlines will restore its seasonal link to and from Sapporo in Japan for the two months of December 2024 and January 2025, a welcome return for this popular service during Hokkaido’s peak ski season.

Siem Reap also sees more flights this winter, with twice daily service instead of 1x daily, while Phuket gets its now-regular seasonal hike to six times daily for the majority of the season.

Strangely, the Singapore – Kuala Lumpur route remains at 79% of pre-COVID frequencies with 54 weekly services operating, a level more or less retained through to late March 2025. In 2023, the airline had been operating 68 weekly flights on the route – matching pre-COVID levels.

Boeing 737-800s, with ex-SilkAir recliner seats in Business Class, will still stretch their legs to five-hour Kathmandu flights from late October – bad news for those hoping to catch up on some sleep or, with no Wi-Fi available, some productive work!

Other 737-800 routes are thankfully restricted to shorter flights, with Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Phuket and Siem Reap on the list.

For those who enjoy the long-haul Business Class product on short-haul routes, two out of three daily Ho Chi Minh flights will be operated by the Airbus A350 Long Haul this winter, as the carrier hikes overall service from 19 times weekly to 21 times weekly to and from the city.

Here’s how the long-haul network looks during the winter 2023 / 24 season.

Singapore Airlines Routes Long-haul (27 Oct 2024 – 29 Mar 2025)
Destination	Dates	Frequency	Acft
Adelaide	All	10/wk (was 7/wk)	787
Amsterdam	All	7/wk	359 LH
Auckland	27OCT24 – 21NOV24	19/wk (was 7/wk)	359 LH 77W
	22NOV24 – 12MAR25	21/wk
	13MAR25 – 29MAR25	19/wk
Barcelona (non-stop)	All	2/wk	359 LH
Barcelona (via MXP)	All	3/wk	359 LH
Brisbane	All	25/wk	359 MH
Brussels	All	4/wk	359 LH
Cairns	All	4/wk	359 MH
Cape Town (via JNB)	All	7/wk	359 LH
Christchurch	27OCT24 – 21NOV24	7/wk	359 LH
	22NOV24 – 14FEB25	10/wk
	15FEB25 – 29MAR25	7/wk
Copenhagen	All	7/wk	359 LH
Darwin	27OCT24 – 15MAR25	7/wk	7M8
	16MAR25 – 29MAR25	4/wk
Dubai	All	7/wk	359 MH
Frankfurt	All	14/wk	388 77W
Houston (via MAN)	All	5/wk	359 LH
Istanbul	All	4/wk	359 LH
Johannesburg	27OCT24 – 10DEC24	7/wk	359 LH
	11DEC24 – 10JAN25	10/wk
	11JAN25 – 29MAR25	7/wk
London Gatwick	All	5/wk	359 LH
London Heathrow	27OCT24 – 23NOV24	24/wk (was 28/wk)	388 77W
	24NOV24 – 29MAR25	28/wk
Los Angeles (non-stop)	10/wk	10/wk	359 LH 359 ULR
Los Angeles (via NRT)	7/wk	7/wk	77W
Manchester	All	5/wk	359 LH
Melbourne	All	35/wk	359 LH 77W
Milan	All	7/wk	359 LH
Munich	All	7/wk	359 LH
New York JFK (non-stop)	All	7/wk	359 ULR
New York JFK (via FRA)	All	7/wk	77W
Newark	All	7/wk	359 ULR
Paris	27OCT24 – 01DEC24	14/wk	359 LH 77W
	02DEC24 – 14JAN25	11/wk
	15JAN25 – 31JAN25	7/wk
	01FEB25 – 29MAR25	11/wk
Perth	All	28/wk	359 MH 787
Rome	All	4/wk	359 LH
San Francisco	All	14/wk	359 LH 359 ULR
Seattle	All	4/wk	359 LH
Sydney	All	35/wk (was 28/wk)	359 LH 388 77W
Zurich	All	7/wk	77W
Total (by March 2025)		335/wk

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

Sydney, Melbourne, London and Perth will have the highest frequencies on SIA’s long-haul network, with each city served four or five times per day, including A380 services to Sydney and London.

Barcelona will be served non-stop during the winter season for the first time this year, with twice weekly SIN-BCN-SIN service supplemented by three times weekly flights via Milan that take a SIN-MXP-BCN-MXP-SIN routing.

In 2023, Barcelona only had a non-stop connection during the peak July and August European school holiday period, but SIA made it a regular link from June this year.

Adelaide will see 10 weekly flights for the entire winter season, a pattern that was only effective during the peak December and January periods last year.

Auckland also increases to a record three times daily service for the majority of the season, with twice daily Airbus A350 Long Haul and once daily Boeing 777-300ER flights.

A service reduction to and from Paris is surprising news, as we recently reported, with regular twice daily flights scaled back by up to 50% during some periods this winter.

Only 5 consistent A380 routes this winter

Most of the recent route news for Singapore Airlines has been surrounding the carrier’s Airbus A380 superjumbos, which are currently plagued with maintenance requirements and airworthiness directives and therefore spend a lot of time in the hangar lately.

This has seen several planned services to Hong Kong, Delhi, Mumbai and Sydney all downgauged to smaller aircraft types during the current summer 2024 season, and the pattern continues into the upcoming winter period too.

The late October 2024 to late March 2025 period will see Frankfurt flights replaced with three-class Airbus A350s over Chinese New Year, while both Hong Kong and Shanghai are having their regular daily superjumbo flights scaled back to Boeing 777-300ER operation for practically the entire five-month season.

That will mean the A380s are only consistently offered on five routes this winter, in a schedule that requires only eight of the 12 superjumbos in the fleet, in order to continuously operate.

Here’s how the the Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 schedule looks for the upcoming winter season.

SIA Winter 24/25 A380 Flights
Route	Flights	Frequency
Delhi	SQ406/403	7 x weekly
Frankfurt (except 26 Dec, 15-31 Jan)	SQ326/325	7 x weekly
Hong Kong (16-31 Jan only)	SQ892/893	7 x weekly
London	SQ322/317 SQ308/319	7 x weekly 7 x weekly
Mumbai	SQ424/423	7 x weekly
Shanghai (15-31 Jan only)	SQ830/833	7 x weekly
Sydney	SQ221/232 SQ231/222	7 x weekly 7 x weekly

As you can see, only five cities (Delhi, Frankfurt, London, Mumbai and Sydney) will have consistent superjumbo service this winter.

A temporary two-week withdrawal of the A380 from Frankfurt flights in late January 2025 appears to support temporary peak CNY resumption for the type on both Hong Kong and Shanghai routes, though only for a couple of weeks.

Prior to COVID-19, SIA’s 19-strong fleet of A380s served eight cities, including daily New York services.

“Fifth freedom” routes

Singapore Airlines will continue to operate four “fifth freedom” routes during the winter season, on which it has traffic rights to sell tickets and provide award redemptions to passengers travelling solely between these cities.

• Frankfurt to/from New York JFK (Boeing 777-300ER)
• Manchester to/from Houston (Airbus A350 Long Haul)
• Milan to/from Barcelona (Airbus A350 Long Haul)
• Tokyo to/from Los Angeles (Boeing 777-300ER)

Note that it is not possible to buy or redeem tickets to travel solely on the following Singapore Airlines routes:

• Johannesburg to Cape Town
• Cape Town to Johannesburg

On these flights, you must be travelling to or from Singapore.

Which routes are still missing?

With 79 destinations across the Singapore Airlines and former SilkAir network now reinstated, it’s interesting to consider which cities or airports are still to be added to the list (or not, as the case may be).

Here’s the latest rundown.

Singapore Airlines / SilkAir Routes
Pending Reinstatement

	City / Airport
Pending reinstatement (SIA route)	Moscow
Pending reinstatement (former SilkAir route)	Bandung Chengdu* Chongqing* Mandalay (seasonal) Shenzhen* Xiamen*
Transferred to Scoot (and still pending reinstatement)	Semarang
Discontinued since COVID-19 (no planned reinstatement)	Canberra Dusseldorf Hiroshima Stockholm Wellington

* Restarted, but suspended again from 27th October 2024

SIA has still not programmed a return of its Singapore – Hong Kong – San Francisco flights since these were suspended in January 2022, when Hong Kong banned transit passengers.

Hong Kong dropped the last of its COVID-era travel restrictions in April 2023, and hasn’t had any transit restrictions since April 2022, so we were hoping to see a return for this popular service by now.

Singapore Airlines schedules get a couple of ‘big updates’ per year, and this is one of them, with flight frequencies and aircraft types confirmed for the northern winter season from late October 2024 to late March 2025.

For most routes it’s ‘status quo’, and while there’s a reduction for some destinations there are also many increases in the mix for cities like Sydney, Adelaide, Hong Kong, Auckland and Siem Reap.

There are also new routes coming this winter, to Beijing Daxing in China and Sapporo in Japan.

If you are booking flights beyond 30th March 2025, do be aware that the next summer schedule is still somewhat provisional, especially as far as aircraft types are concerned.

(Cover Photo: Alvin Man / Onemoreweektogo)