Category: Singapore Airlines

AN Airbus A380, the world’s biggest passenger airliner, bound for Sydney was delayed for more than an hour today due to a "fuel line" problem, the carrier said.

The glitch on the Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight was the third time in two months an A380 flight was delayed due to a fuel issue.
"Tonight’s flight to […]

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Singapore Airlines grounded a second Airbus A380 aircraft for a fuel pump problem on Monday night, delaying Sydney-bound passengers who had to switch to smaller planes.
In a statement issued Wednesday, airline spokesman Stephen Forshaw said the plane is now back in service.
"We regret the inconvenience caused to customers who incurred delays on Monday […]

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The Airbus A380 superjumbo took off today from Singapore’s Changi Airport for its inaugural commercial flight to London, the jet’s first European destination.
Flight SQ308, operated by A380 launch customer Singapore Airlines (SIA), departed Changi Airport’s new Terminal 3 at 9:19 am (0119 GMT).
The flight is scheduled to land at London’s Heathrow Airport around 12-13 hours […]

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Singapore - Singapore Airlines said Wednesday that it would start flying the world’s largest passenger plane to Tokyo on May 20, the carrier’s third Airbus 380 destination and its first in Asia. Service to Tokyo’s Narita Airport would begin after Singapore Airlines starts to fly daily to and from London with the sumperjumbo jet on […]

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Singapore Airlines said its third Airbus A380, the world’s largest commercial jet, arrived Wednesday in the city-state ahead of its deployment on the carrier’s service between London and the city-state.
Singapore Airlines Ltd. took delivery of the double-decker jet at the Airbus delivery center in Toulouse, France, on Tuesday, the airline said in a statement. […]

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Singapore Airline’s business class seats each measure 76 centimetres wide and can be converted into a fully flat bed.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) will offer an all-business class seating on its non-stop flights to Los Angeles and New York starting in mid-May, the carrier said Tuesday.
The decision to remove economy seats and offer only business class […]

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A Singapore Airlines jet shut down one of its two engines after suffering mechanical trouble today but landed safely in Japan, transportation officials said. There were no injuries reported.
The Boeing 777-200 plane, flying from Singapore to Nagoya, reported the trouble about 30 minutes before arriving, said Yasuki Shigeno, a Transport Ministry official at the Central […]

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Airbus aims to talk to Singapore Airlines over the purchase of up to 15 additional A380 superjumbos and 20 A330 or A350 widebody planes, the European planemaker’s chief salesman said on Thursday.
"I would think (Singapore Airlines) will definitely need another 10 to 15 A380 category aircraft, and I think they need at least 20 more […]

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Singapore Airlines has selected the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine to power its nine additional Airbus A380-800’s, which were ordered in 2006 for delivery between 2010 and 2011.     
The order complements the first 10 Trent-900 powered A380s, of which deliveries have commenced.  Singapore Airlines became the first airline in the world to fly the A380 in October […]

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Singapore Airlines has encountered its first major technical glitch with its four-month-old A380 superjumbo, which forced it to cancel a flight from Singapore to Sydney last night leaving 70 passengers stranded without a hotel room.
The airline has confirmed it was forced to ground the Airbus jetliner overnight due to a problem with a fuel pump.
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Singapore Airlines has confirmed it will fly the world’s largest passenger aircraft - the Airbus A380 - on the Singapore-London route, from 18 March 2008, after the airline takes delivery of its third A380 by mid-March. The inaugural flight will be the first-ever A380 commercial service to Europe.
The first A380 flight to London, SQ 308, […]

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