Singapore Airlines to announce Singpaore-Canberra-Wellington Service

[Mark Grima]

I did see the Ambulance meet the aircraft. Hope it was nothing to serious. Given the weather, I dare say the fly over would have been canned anyway.

Cheers

M

[Radi K]

As per my comment in this thread in January, I always suspected the schedule was susceptible to the Canberra fog.

Eventuated already tonight - first flight from WLG did a go-around..must have just got in with vis down to 100m.



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Be interesting to see if it gets out tonight as the visibility is less than that required for take-off.

[James Smith]

Yes, SQ292 has just departed. On the webcam the fog was getting worse and you could hardly see the outline of the aircraft. Then Canberra Airport kindly closed the webcam, so I've waited until the flight has appeared on FlightAware which it has.

So, there will be some relieved airport and Singapore Airlines staff with the flight departing, especially as it had the go-around on arrival.

[JamesL]

RVRs were around the 500 mark so above minimum, they were escorted to the runway and then departed.

[Alex Lui]

Just for some variety, 9V-SRM is operating tonight's SQ291 rotation.

9V-SRP is currently enroute to Hong Kong so unfortunately won't be appearing in Canberra tomorrow.

[Alex Lui]

9V-SQK is operating tonight's SQ291 rotation.
First time a 9V-SQ bird is operating it.

Alex.

[Alex Lui]

Sorry to bring up an old thread. I know early days, but data published by bitre.gov.au for September where 6 flights operated shows:
- 61% for the Singapore service
- 39% for the Wellington service

(LF's taken for both inbound and outbound services).

Hmmm... It seems the Singapore service is stronger on its own. Don't know how many pax actually continue originate from Singapore to bump up the Wellington part of the flight.

Alex.

[Kent Broadhead]

Is there cargo to assist with the NZ tag, as per EK from SYD? Factors other than passenger load may allow the tag to pay for itself, especially if the 39% include a good chunk of premium customers (although SIA economy seems a great option in itself for the short hop)

[Torin Wilson]

I flew on this last week. On the way from WLG to CBR business had 10 or so pax, not sure about economy but business filled up from CBR. On the return CBR-WLG economy was at about 50% with most, if not all of those, originating in SIN or beyond. Not that many seemed to get off in CBR.

Limited scope but something I suppose

[MarkR]

Originally Posted by Kent Broadhead

Is there cargo to assist with the NZ tag, as per EK from SYD? Factors other than passenger load may allow the tag to pay for itself, especially if the 39% include a good chunk of premium customers (although SIA economy seems a great option in itself for the short hop)

Freight is pretty much non existant on both legs, 3 T and 10 T all outbound.