Singapore Airlines announces schedule through to March 2027

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 2027.

While flights for this period have been available for booking for some time, many of the frequencies and aircraft types were initially carried over as a “copy-paste” from the previous season’s schedules. As a result, they weren’t necessarily accurate – until now.

This winter looks very different to last year.

In NW25/26 SIA made deeper than usual seasonal cuts across Europe and North Asia. This time it’s putting capacity back into Europe, with a return to Madrid, twice-daily Gatwick flights, and more services to Frankfurt and Munich.

Australia gets a brand new route to Western Sydney and record frequencies to Adelaide and Christchurch, while Dubai and Riyadh should finally return after a troubled 2026.

Meanwhile Colombo, Johannesburg and Bali are among the routes seeing cuts.

Headline figures

Singapore Airlines will fly over 2,530 passenger flights per week by March 2027, its highest total since schedules were slashed in April 2020 due to COVID-19.

That’s around 92% of the pre-pandemic monthly total operated on the combined SilkAir / SIA network in January 2020. SilkAir was fully merged into SIA in May 2021.

Now that the northern winter 2026/27 schedule has been confirmed, and before we get into the full route list, here’s a quick summary of the most significant changes in store.

Europe bounces back

Last winter Europe bore the brunt of SIA’s seasonal cuts, with reductions to London Heathrow, Munich, Paris and Rome, and a month-long suspension of non-stop Barcelona flights.

This year the picture is much brighter. SIA will operate around 15 – 20% more weekly flights to Europe than at the same points last winter, and the usual February and March lull periods are much less pronounced.

• Barcelona gets five times weekly non-stop flights for the entire winter season, up from just twice weekly last winter. Those flights now continue to Madrid, a city SIA returns to for the first time since 2004. As a result, the Singapore – Milan – Barcelona routing ends, and Milan reverts to a daily terminator service.
• Frankfurt gets its third daily flight (SQ330/329) six days per week from the start of the season, whereas last winter it was only added from mid-January. The exception is a two-week gap in late January, when the route dips back to twice daily. The Airbus A380 is withdrawn from the route, with SQ326/325 reverting to the Boeing 777-300ER.
• London Gatwick doubles to twice daily service for most of the winter, up from daily last year. There’s a temporary dip to 10 weekly flights, then daily, from late January to late February.
• London Heathrow keeps all four daily flights throughout the season. Last winter it was cut to three daily for over five weeks between January and February.
• Manchester retains the daily service it gained in mid-July, up from five times weekly last winter.
• Munich increases to 10 weekly flights from daily, with the extra SQ368/367 rotation operating three times weekly. February sees a dip back to daily, but that’s still better than last winter’s unusual cut to five weekly.

Southern summer: Australia and New Zealand

As always, SIA leans into increased seasonal demand for the Southern Hemisphere summer, and this year it has a brand new airport to serve.

• Western Sydney International joins the network from 23rd November 2026, with daily Airbus A350 Medium Haul flights. Combined with Kingsford Smith, as Sydney’s original airport will increasingly need to be known, that restores five daily SIA flights to Sydney, matching the winter 2024/25 season.
• Adelaide increases to a record 12 weekly flights, all on the Boeing 787-10, up from 10 weekly.
• Auckland will see the Airbus A380 for the entire season for the first time, as we recently reported, alongside a daily Boeing 777-300ER. The seasonal third daily flight (SQ287/288) is gone this year, so frequencies are down on last winter’s early-season peak of 21 weekly, but each flight carries more seats so overall capacity is largely retained.
• Christchurch reaches a record 12 weekly flights for the peak summer period between late November and early February, up from last winter’s peak of 11. Even the shoulder months hold at 10 weekly, compared to daily last year.
• Cairns goes daily from 1st December 2026, up from four times weekly, but using smaller Boeing 737-8 MAX aircraft rather than A350s, as we previously reported.
• Brisbane gets the Airbus A350 Long Haul on one of its four daily flights (SQ265/266) from 1st November 2026, bringing the 2013 J Business Class seat back to the route.

Short- and medium-haul routes

• Vietnam is the standout regional market this winter, with combined Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh and Da Nang frequencies reaching 70 weekly flights, up 43% on last winter’s 49. Ho Chi Minh and Da Nang each gain an extra daily flight, as we reported last week, while Hanoi holds the third daily service it gained in June.
• Bangkok keeps its seventh daily flight during the peak Christmas, Chinese New Year and late March periods, reverting to six daily outside those windows. That’s around 7% more flights than last winter, when Bangkok was served six times daily throughout.
• Hangzhou, which returned to the network in June 2026, continues with daily flights through the winter, using a mix of Airbus A350 Medium Haul and Boeing 787-10 aircraft.
• Busan is daily for the entire season, having built up gradually from four weekly to daily over the course of last winter.
• Osaka retains three daily flights all winter. Last winter it was cut to twice daily for around seven weeks in the first quarter of the year.
• Sapporo returns for its seasonal run, and this time it stretches into February. It’s daily from 30th November 2026, then five weekly in late January and three weekly throughout February, around 20% more flights than last winter’s two-month season.
• Shanghai drops back to four daily flights as usual for the winter, but the Airbus A380 now operates SQ830/833 for the entire season, rather than just February and March as it did last winter.
• Beijing Daxing once again suspends service over the new year, this time for three weeks (29th December 2026 – 18th January 2027), a week shorter than last year. Beijing Capital continues to fluctuate between two and three daily flights, but runs at three daily for longer than it did last winter.

The Middle East – back on the map (hopefully)

SIA’s Middle East network has had a torrid 2026. Dubai flights were suspended on 28th February, when military strikes triggered widespread airspace closures across the region, and the restart has been pushed back several times since.

This winter both Dubai and Riyadh are scheduled to return, though with smaller aircraft and fewer seats than originally planned.

• Dubai restarts with daily flights from 25th October 2026, but using the two-class Airbus A350 Medium Haul rather than the A380 that was promised year-round. That means no First Class or Premium Economy on the route this winter. The superjumbo that was meant for Dubai was redeployed to Melbourne in March, and the switch to the A350 for the winter was foreshadowed in May and then confirmed in July. The Boeing 777-300ER is loaded from 28th March 2027, rather than the A380.
• Riyadh finally re-launches on 1st December 2026, six months later than the original June 2026 plan, after being pushed back to September and then to December. It also starts at three weekly flights rather than four, a 25% capacity cut, using the Airbus A350 Medium Haul. At nearly nine hours in the winter months, it will be SIA’s longest route to feature the 2018 Regional Business Class seat.

The situation in the region remains volatile, but let’s hope these routes get started as planned this time round.

The cuts

It’s not all growth, with several routes seeing reductions this winter.

• Colombo is halved from 14 to seven weekly flights, with the daily Boeing 737-8 MAX service withdrawn only months after it was added in May 2026. That leaves a single daily Boeing 787-10 rotation.
• Johannesburg drops from 12 to seven weekly flights, as we recently reported. The SQ482/481 terminator service is axed, leaving only the daily SQ478/479 continuing to and from Cape Town.
• Bali loses its sixth daily flight during off-peak periods, dropping to 35 weekly flights for around 12 of the season’s 22 weeks. Across the season that’s around 9% fewer flights than last winter, and with half the flights now on the smaller Boeing 737-8 MAX, seat capacity is down over 20%, as we reported last month.
• Taipei misses out on its seasonal third daily flight this year. Last winter SIA added it four days per week from February for cherry blossom season, but the route stays at twice daily throughout NW26/27.
• Tokyo won’t see a sixth daily December flight this year, after SQ630/639 was added to Haneda for December 2025.
• Amsterdam drops back to daily from 10 weekly, with the summer SQ334/333 service ending.
• Los Angeles non-stop flights drop from 10 to seven weekly for the last two weeks of March 2027.

Singapore Airlines’ winter schedule

In short, Europe and Australia / New Zealand get the lion’s share of extra capacity this winter, alongside a Vietnam boost and the return of Dubai and Riyadh, while Colombo, Johannesburg and Bali see cuts. By March 2027, overall flights will reach their highest level since early 2020.

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 25th October 2026 and runs through to 27th March 2027.

Singapore Airlines Routes Short-haul & Asia (Nov 2026 – Mar 2027)
Destination	Dates	Frequency	Acft
Ahmedabad	All	7/wk	359 MH
Bangkok	25OCT26 – 05DEC26	42/wk	359 MH 359 LH 787
	06DEC26 – 16JAN27	49/wk
	17JAN27 – 07FEB27	42/wk
	08FEB27 – 20FEB27	49/wk
	21FEB27 – 13MAR27	42/wk
	14MAR27 – 27MAR27	49/wk
Beijing Capital	25OCT26 – 14NOV26	14/wk	359 MH 77W 787
	15NOV26 – 21FEB27	21/wk
	22FEB27 – 14MAR27	14/wk
	15MAR27 – 27MAR27	21/wk
Beijing Daxing	25OCT26 – 28DEC26	7/wk	359 MH
	29DEC26 – 18JAN27	0/wk — Route Suspended —
	19JAN27 – 27MAR27	7/wk
Bengaluru	All	14/wk	359 MH 7M8
Brunei	All	7/wk	7M8
Busan	All	7/wk	7M8
Cebu	All	7/wk	7M8
Chennai	All	14/wk	359 MH 787 7M8
Chengdu	All	7/wk	787
Chongqing	All	7/wk	7M8
Cochin	All	14/wk (was 10/wk)	7M8
Colombo	All	7/wk (was 14/wk)	787
Da Nang	All	21/wk (was 14/wk)	7M8
Denpasar (Bali)	25OCT26 – 05DEC26	35/wk (was 42/wk)	787 7M8
	06DEC26 – 16JAN27	42/wk
	17JAN27 – 06FEB27	35/wk
	07FEB27 – 20FEB27	42/wk
	21FEB27 – 13MAR27	35/wk
	14MAR27 – 27MAR27	42/wk
Delhi	All	14/wk	388 787
Dhaka	All	7/wk	787
Fukuoka	All	7/wk	787
Guangzhou	All	14/wk	787 7M8
Hangzhou	All	7/wk	359 MH 787
Hanoi	All	21/wk	359 MH 7M8
Ho Chi Minh	All	28/wk (was 21/wk)	359 LH 787 7M8
Hong Kong	All	35/wk	359 MH 359 LH 77W 787
Hyderabad	All	12/wk	359 MH 7M8
Jakarta	All	63/wk	359 LH 359 MH 77W
Kathmandu	All	7/wk	787 7M8
Kolkata	All	7/wk	359 MH 7M8
Kuala Lumpur	All	54/wk	359 LH 359 MH 7M8
Malé	All	14/wk	359 MH 359 LH
Manila	All	35/wk	359 LH 359 MH 787 7M8
Medan	All	14/wk	7M8
Mumbai	All	14/wk	388 787
Nagoya	All	7/wk	787
Osaka	All	21/wk	787
Penang	All	35/wk	7M8
Phnom Penh	All	21/wk	359 MH 7M8
Phuket	All	42/wk (was 35/wk)	7M8
Sapporo	30NOV26 – 24JAN27	7/wk (seasonal restart)	359 MH
	25JAN27 – 31JAN27	5/wk
	01FEB27 – 28FEB27	3/wk
Seoul	25OCT26 – 08JAN27	28/wk	359 MH 787
	09JAN27 – 29JAN27	21/wk
	30JAN27 – 14FEB27	28/wk
	15FEB27 – 28FEB27	21/wk
	01MAR27 – 27MAR27	28/wk
Shanghai	All	28/wk (was 35/wk)	359 MH 388 77W 787
Shenzhen	All	7/wk	7M8
Siem Reap	All	14/wk (was 10/wk)	7M8
Surabaya	All	21/wk	359 MH 7M8
Taipei	All	14/wk	787
Tokyo Haneda	All	21/wk	359 MH 77W
Tokyo Narita	All	14/wk	77W 787
Xiamen	All	7/wk	7M8
Yangon	All	12/wk (was 10/wk)	7M8
Total (by March 2027)		876/wk

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

Here’s how the long-haul network looks during the winter 2026/27 season.

Singapore Airlines Routes Long-haul (Nov 2026 – Mar 2027)
Destination	Dates	Frequency	Acft
Adelaide	All	12/wk (was 10/wk)	787
Amsterdam	All	7/wk (was 10/wk)	77W
Auckland	All	14/wk (was 7/wk)	388 77W
Barcelona (non-stop)	All	5/wk (was 2/wk)	359 LH
Barcelona (via MXP)	All	0/wk (was 3/wk) — Route Ending —	359 LH
Brisbane	All	28/wk	359 MH 359 LH
Brussels	All	4/wk	359 LH
Cairns	25OCT26 – 30NOV26	4/wk	359 MH 7M8
	01DEC26 – 27MAR27	7/wk
Cape Town (via JNB)	All	7/wk	359 LH
Christchurch	25OCT26 – 15NOV26	10/wk (was 7/wk)	359 LH
	16NOV26 – 22NOV26	11/wk
	23NOV26 – 07FEB27	12/wk
	08FEB27 – 14FEB27	11/wk
	15FEB27 – 27MAR27	10/wk
Copenhagen	All	7/wk	359 LH
Darwin	All	7/wk	7M8
Dubai	All	7/wk (was 0/wk) — Route Restarting —	359 MH
Frankfurt	25OCT26 – 17JAN27	20/wk (was 14/wk)	359 LH 77W
	18JAN27 – 31JAN27	14/wk
	01FEB27 – 27MAR27	20/wk
Istanbul	All	4/wk	359 LH
Johannesburg	All	7/wk (was 12/wk)	359 LH
London Gatwick	25OCT26 – 17JAN27	14/wk (was 10/wk)	359 LH
	18JAN27 – 24JAN27	10/wk
	25JAN27 – 21FEB27	7/wk
	22FEB27 – 28FEB27	10/wk
	01MAR27 – 27MAR27	14/wk
London Heathrow	All	28/wk	359 LH 388 77W
Los Angeles (non-stop)	25OCT26 – 12MAR27	10/wk	359 LH
	13MAR27 – 27MAR27	7/wk
Los Angeles (via NRT)	All	7/wk	77W
Madrid (via BCN)	All	5/wk — New Route —	359 LH
Manchester	All	7/wk	359 LH
Melbourne	All	35/wk	359 LH 359 MH 388 77W
Milan	All	7/wk	359 LH
Munich	25OCT26 – 31JAN27	10/wk (was 7/wk)	359 LH
	01FEB27 – 28FEB27	7/wk
	01MAR27 – 27MAR27	10/wk
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	25OCT26 – 31JAN27	11/wk (was 10/wk)	359 LH 77W
	01FEB27 – 27MAR27	10/wk
Perth	All	28/wk	359 MH 787
Riyadh	01DEC26 – 27MAR27	3/wk — New Route —	359 MH
Rome	All	3/wk (was 5/wk)	359 LH
San Francisco	All	14/wk	359 LH 359 ULR
Seattle	All	5/wk	359 LH
Sydney SYD	All	28/wk	359 MH 388 77W
Sydney WSI	23NOV26 – 27MAR27	7/wk — New Route —	359 MH
Zurich	All	7/wk	77W
Total (by March 2027)		366/wk

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

Where’s the A380 this winter?

SIA’s superjumbos will serve seven cities during the NW26/27 season. Frankfurt and Hong Kong drop off the list compared to the summer, and of course Dubai never got it at all, while Auckland and Shanghai gain season-long service.

• Auckland (SQ285/286, all season for the first time)
• Delhi (SQ406/403)
• London Heathrow (SQ308/319 and SQ322/317)
• Melbourne (SQ237/228, the aircraft originally destined for Dubai)
• Mumbai (SQ424/423)
• Shanghai (SQ830/833, all season)
• Sydney (SQ221/232 and SQ231/222)

“Fifth freedom” routes

Singapore Airlines will operate just two “fifth freedom” routes this winter, on which it has traffic rights to sell tickets to passengers travelling solely between these foreign cities:

• Frankfurt to / from New York JFK (Boeing 777-300ER)
• Tokyo to / from Los Angeles (Boeing 777-300ER)

The popular Milan – Barcelona intra-Europe link ends along with the Barcelona via-Milan routing. The new Barcelona – Madrid sector is a domestic flight within Spain, so under cabotage rules SIA can’t sell it as a standalone journey, as with Johannesburg – Cape Town.

It is therefore not possible to buy or redeem tickets to travel solely on the following Singapore Airlines routes:

• Barcelona to / from Madrid
• Johannesburg to / from Cape Town

To get a seat on these flights, you must be travelling all the way to or from Singapore.

SIA still has not programmed a return for its flagship SQ1/2 Singapore – Hong Kong – San Francisco flights since these were suspended in January 2022, when Hong Kong banned transit passengers, in another of its ever-changing travel restrictions during the pandemic era.

It’s unlikely the airline will restart this aircraft-intensive route in the short term, with no new long-haul aircraft deliveries due until 2027 at the earliest, and another Boeing 777-300ER leaving the operating fleet this year.

Singapore Airlines schedules get a couple of ‘big updates’ each year, and this is one of them, with flight frequencies and aircraft types confirmed for the northern winter season from late October 2026 to late March 2027.

After last winter’s deeper cuts to Europe, SIA is pushing capacity back into the continent this year. Madrid returns after 22 years, London Gatwick goes twice daily, Frankfurt and Munich both gain flights, and London Heathrow is spared a winter cut this time.

Australia and New Zealand get a boost for the southern summer as usual, with the new Western Sydney route, record frequencies to Adelaide and Christchurch, and the A380 on Auckland flights all season long. Closer to home, Vietnam sees 43% more flights compared to last winter.

Dubai and Riyadh are finally due back after a turbulent 2026, albeit with smaller aircraft and fewer seats than first planned.

Colombo, Johannesburg and Bali move the other way, with Colombo losing half its flights only months after they were added, and Bali seeing a surprise one-fifth capacity loss.

We’ve already updated our Business Class Seats by Route and First Class Seats by Route guides with the new data through to the end of March 2027.

If you are booking flights beyond 27th March 2027, do be aware that next summer’s schedule is still somewhat provisional, especially as far as aircraft types are concerned. We’ll have more firm news on the schedule for that season in around January next year.

(Cover Photo: Plane’s Portrait Aviation Media / Malcolm Lu)