Saturday, January 20, 2018

Singapore Airlines to pull out A-380 from Mumbai route for two months

Mumbai: The world's largest passenger aircraft — Airbus A-380 — may have got a new lease of life with Dubai-based Emirates ordering 36 of these double deckers, the double decker's flights to India are declining. Delhi and Mumbai are the only two airports where this aircraft flies to. And airlines are pulling out this plane from Mumbai for deployed them on other routes, some temporarily and others not saying for how long.
Three airlines — Singapore Airlines (SIA), Emirates and Etihad — had started flying this plane to Mumbai. Etihad pulled out the A-380 from this route last July and replaced it with Airbus A-340. Now SIA will also not operate the plane on Mumbai route this July and August as it will use the aircraft on Singapore-London route. Emirates, however, is continuing with the service to Mumbai on this plane.
"SIA operates a daily A-380 service to Mumbai and Delhi. In total we have 14 weekly flights on the Airbus A-380 to India. We do not have any plans to increase or decrease the number of A-380 services to India. However, on the Mumbai route we will be operating the Boeing 777-300 ER (extended range) during the months of July and August, as the A-380 is being utilised on a different route due to operational requirements. (In those two months) it will be deployed to London," said a SIA spokesperson.
20/01/18 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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