Singapore Airlines to launch Sydney-Jakarta-Singapore flights
By Chris C., September 28 2016
UPDATE | Singapore Airlines' plans to launch Sydney-Jakarta-Singapore flights have been paused following a decision by the Indonesian government to withdraw its approval for the new route.
Read more: Singapore Airlines defers Sydney-Jakarta-Singapore route launch
PREVIOUS | Star Alliance member Singapore Airlines will launch flights from Sydney to Jakarta and then onwards to Singapore from November 23 2016.
Running three times each week, SIA’s latest flight will leave Sydney at 11am on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, reaching Jakarta at 2:35pm. The flight will then continue to Singapore at 3:35pm before touching down in the Lion City at 6:10pm local time.
On the return, it’s wheels-up from Singapore at 8:15pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for a 9pm pit stop in the Indonesian capital, before leaving for Sydney at 10:25pm and arriving at 9:30am the following morning.
The flights will be served by a Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, fitted with fully-flat beds in business class with direct aisle access from every seat in a similar style to SQ's Airbus A380s (pictured):
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It’s believed that passengers will be able to travel between Australia and Indonesia without needing to fly onwards to Singapore – and likewise from Singapore to Jakarta without including Australia – in a similar style to other popular ‘fifth freedom’ flights like Emirates’ trans-Tasman routes.
Both Qantas and Garuda Indonesia already offer non-stop flights from Sydney to Jakarta, although not on Tuesdays and Thursdays where Singapore Airlines will step in.
Tickets for these new Singapore Airlines flights will go on sale shortly.
Also read: Emirates resumes Brisbane-Singapore-Dubai flights
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Chris is a a former contributor to Executive Traveller.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
31 Aug 2015
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Will this be a Virgin codeshare?
24 Apr 2012
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That's the kind of thing we'd include in the article if it were known, but for now, Singapore Airlines has only just announced the route and tickets aren't even on sale yet, so give it time. :)
25 Sep 2013
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Interesting SQ is using a refurbished B772 for this new route but elected to use the old B772 with angled lie flat seats in business for the Capital Express.
16 Nov 2011
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Eminere, you need to better understand SQ's product offering.
The angled seats on the CBR route (and 777-300 (non ER) and A330) are the regional offering, and in the case of the 777's were only fitted about 2-3 years ago.
The seats on the aircraft mentioned here is their long haul product. Found on some slim European routes, plus some routes around Asia either as long haul feeders or simply just to utilise the aircraft.
So nothing to do with age or product, more to do with what SQ considers the market will/can take. CX does the same.
16 Nov 2011
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PS, they don't have too many 777-200ER's with the long haul product. About 5.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
10 Apr 2012
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I think what eminere was referring to is giving an "angled" J regional product for the "Capital" Express where there are probably more higher spenders, and giving the better Long haul product to the more leisure Jakarta route...
16 Nov 2011
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He was calling the angled flat the 'old' product and the fully flat refurbished. Same as an article I saw in the paper the other day.
25 Sep 2013
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Precisely, highflyer.
16 Nov 2011
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eminere I took exception to the misnomer that the angled flat product is old and fully flat new and refurbished. Both angled flat (really regional) and fully flat (long haul) date from around the same time. Though the regional seat is newer by a few years, with the long haul seat being the one planed to debut on the A380 10 years ago. So not an case of old and new.
07 Oct 2012
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Not sure if CX is flying too many, if any, long haul routes with their regional configured birds...also the SIN-CBR service is overnight both ways, whereas SYD-CGK is a daytime flight.
16 Nov 2011
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Who said they were? I was just pointing out that CX also have different long haul and regional product.
31 Mar 2016
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@AJW:
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
09 May 2011
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Seems odd that Singapore Airlines have chosen to operate this route. I would have thought the SYD-CGK route was well served with Garuda and Qantas and I don't see much benefit to Singapore operating it other than filling a gap on days with no current flight.
16 Nov 2011
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As the article mentioned demand has gone up 16% in the last year.
31 Mar 2016
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@aklrunway:
16 Nov 2011
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Actually FLX, this is an extra flight. Mentioned it above but SQ has a 3.5 hour gap on SIN-CGK from around 6:30 (SQ966) to 9:55 (SQ968) and this extra fits right into the middle. Reason I reckon there is a gap is the A/C that operates SQ966 returns to SIN as SQ967 arriving at 11pm, so any later departure ex SIN would really need to overnight in CGK rather than return. So they leave a gap to SQ968 which is the one that overnights.
29 Mar 2014
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These are not the only flights being added. SIN-CGK is now moving to "up to 11 times daily", with SQ adding new flights to cover the gaps in SQ261/262's schedule. e.g.: SQ261 to Jakarta runs Monday, Wednesday and Friday, there is a new SQ954 flight covering the remaining 5 days of the week. In the opposite direction SQ262 to Singapore runs Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, SQ937 covers the remaining 4 days of the week.
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01 Mar 2013
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I think this is a winner...for the simple reason that if you are doing a sprint through SE Asia and wanting to do so on a compact ticket the SQ option makes sense. Thanks, Chris.
16 Nov 2011
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Will help, but reckon main reason is to capitalise on the SQ brand in the Indonesian market, especially in the premium cabin, hence the long haul product too.
10 Aug 2015
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It would be good if SQ went daily on the SIN-BNE SQ265 3x weekly service and upgraded from A330-300s to 777s for BNE
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Definitely some good quality offerings from Sydney to Jakarta.
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