Singapore Airlines appears to delay return of Airbus A380 flights to Shanghai

Singapore Airlines has removed Airbus A380 from flights between Singapore Changi Airport and Shanghai Pudong International Airport during the latter half of the winter season, with the airline operating its flights between the two cities with either the Airbus A350-900 or Boeing 777-300ER. As first reported by Mainly Miles, the carrier has abandoned its plans to operate Airbus A380s between SIN and PVG from January 2024, continuing to deploy a Boeing 777-300ER to operate flight SQ 830 and the return itinerary SQ 833. In July 2023, data from Cirium, an aviation analytics company, showed that the airline planned to use the A380 on the SIN-PVG route daily starting January 4, 2024. Singapore Airlines deployed the double-decker on the route until the end of the IATA summer season 2023. According to Cirium, the last flight that was operated by the Singaporean carrier’s A380 from SIN to PVG was on October 9, 2023. The IATA summer season 2023 ended on October 28. Now, the Airbus A380 will only return to the SIN to PVG route from April 1, 2023, coinciding with the start of the summer 2024 season. However, it would not return to the SQ 830/SQ 833 itinerary and instead would operate flight SQ 826 and SQ 827. The former is Singapore Airlines’ first flight of the day between the two cities. Currently, both flights are operated by an Airbus A350-900, according to Flightradar24.<br/>