Singapore Airlines to return to Tokyo Narita Airport with the Airbus A380

Singapore Airlines will resume using the Airbus A380 to Tokyo Narita. The double-decker was first used on the 5,349 km airport pair in 2008, making it among the world's initial A380 routes. It was last deployed in early 2020, just before everything changed. The carrier has 12 A380s, of which 10 are active when writing. Singapore Airlines will return the 471-seat, four-class A380 to Japan on Sunday, October 29th. That is the day airlines in the Northern Hemisphere switch to winter schedules. The quadjet replaces the previously scheduled 787-10. The Star Alliance carrier has double daily Narita flights, the other still using the 777-300ER (SQ12/SQ11), which continues to/from Los Angeles. Singapore Airlines also has triple daily Haneda services, for five daily Tokyo flights. Examining the schedule for the first week of November shows that Tokyo is the carrier's joint third most-served city. It falls behind Kuala Lumpur (47 weekly) and Bali-Denpasar and Jakarta (each 42 weekly). The Japanese capital has as many flights as Bangkok and Penang.<br/>