Citing consistently strong demand from business travelers,
Singapore Airlines has announced plans to convert its five Airbus
A340-500 ultra-long-range aircraft into an all-business class
configuration on daily flights between New York and Singapore, and
Los Angeles and Singapore.
The current two-class, 181-seat configuration will be replaced
with 100 of the airline’s new, award-winning, business class seats
in a one-two-one configuration. At 30 inches, the seats are among
the widest business class offerings in the sky.
Every seat will have direct access to the aisle and convert to a
horizontal flat bed. The new business class seats are the same
design as those installed on the airline's A380 and B777-300ER
fleet.
The implementation will be phased-in gradually from mid-May
2008, on the New York (Newark) to Singapore route with daily
services in the new configuration to New York by the end of June,
and Los Angeles by late September 2008. The program will require
each of the five aircrafts to be retrofitted.
To accommodate the retrofit program, the existing daily Los
Angeles to Singapore non-stop flight will not operate on Tuesdays
between mid-May and late-June. There will be no change to New York
service frequency.
Customers who are currently booked in executive economy class on
the A340-500 services will be re-accommodated where possible on
existing Singapore Airlines services between Los Angeles, New York
and Singapore.
In the future, customers looking to fly economy class between
Singapore and Los Angeles or New York can book existing one-stop
flights.
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