At under an hour, this is the world’s shortest A380 flight!

This is interesting. Do you have an article or any more detail about something more relevant like Singapore adding more flights into Sydney?

The herald is reporting over 5000 seats a week? Can see plenty of articles here about Qantas but nothing on Singapore?

@KW72 - SQ have, 15 minutes ago, released availability on SIN - SYD flights from 01 November.

Thanks for the article ET team! The Herald wasn’t detailed but glad it’s up here now.

Probably their way of getting their pilots to upgrade their currency to fly A380 while carrying pax instead of doing the empty hours (or rather, empty planes) runs. 

Might be something QF can learn from if they want to reactivate their 4 engine equipment and their pilot and to stop cutting corners (as reported by some readers, some of their direct domestic flights between 2 cities like DRW-CBR are now being rerouted via Sydney on domestic leg of international flights (now that HDR-SYD stop over at DRW instead of SIN); definitely a sloppy move since these pax doing domestic runs run the risk of being treated the same as international arrivals on border control (not the quarantine bit but the PCR tests results bit: “where are your test results proof”)

For Casa (Australia) the rules are

To keep flying you need to have a current aircraft rating.

Under Part 61, if you are flying aircraft covered by a class rating, you need to have done a flight review for that class rating within the previous 24 months.

If you have done a current multi-engine aeroplane class rating flight review, you can operate single-engine aeroplanes.

CASA EX66/21 provides an alternative to the aircraft rating flight review. Instead of needing a flight review for each aircraft rating, pilots only need to hold a valid flight review in an aircraft of the same category that was completed in the previous 24 months. If you want to fly a multi-engine aircraft, the flight review needs to have been done in a multi-engine aircraft of the same category.

If you are carrying passengers, you also need to meet the recent experience requirements of three takeoffs and landings within the previous 90 days.

As a commercial pilot you can be subject to operator proficiency checks as well.

BTW. Not sure about boarding the “planeload”, as I doubt the plane will be full or even half full, since MY (or even AU/NZ for that matter) is still not on SG’s VTL list for quarantine free travel, unless either SIA or ER knows something we dont.

Mind you SG is relatively efficient at getting policies and protocol sorted so I won’t be surprised if another announcement will occur within days

To put this into perspective in terms of inflight service, pre-covid SQ would only serve a light snack such as a wrap on this route in business class. In economy it was drinks and peanuts. As a point of difference, MAS would serve up a full hot meal in business, which was impressive on a 45 min flight. I would expect SQ to carry on as before.

SIA , please advise on all the procedures required ( by both Malaysian and Singapore govts) for fully vaccinated Singapore PR to board a SQ flight from KLIA. Also for a fully vaccinated Malaysian citizen who is not a Singapore PR, and wishes to travel to Singapore as a visitor for two weeks. 

Thank you.

A nice change from the times when I traveled between Singapore and KL, use to be on some of the smallest passenger jets at the time. Cramped too even in J.

I'd be at the bar quicker than you could say "are we there yet?"

Does anyone remember how long the SYD to CBR leg was of the flight that used to stop in CBR on the way to SIN? That must have been similar, but I guess they didn’t sell tickets for that leg on its own. I did that a few times and they just about had time to chuck a sandwich at you before getting ready to land…

SQ SYD/CBR on 77W was about 28 minutes. maybe 35 depending on departure runway.

I flew several times F on SQ on A310  from KUL/SIN and they did have a  drinks/snack service and MH  J on A330 the same. I  do recall checking in at SQ F 3 kg overweight on F fare and wanting to charge me and I went next door to MH  and the took the ticket. I recall I havd been to EZE and  currency was low and had  nie wool clothes from Argentina and rarely checked in luggage.

Happy travels.

Not a scheduled flight, but my wife did a 33 minute block time flight from Batam to Singapore in a QF A380.

There was a weather diversion to Batam on the flight from Heathrow.

To say that I was pissed that she did that flight instead of me would be an understatement. I let fly a few choice words when I saw the diversion on the QF flight status page.

Might be the worlds shorted scheduled A380 flight. But the actual shorted could be Avalon- Tullamarine on a QF A380 there was an issue flying in from LAX and they landed at Avalon for an hour and had to reposition with a full load of passengers!