Friday 19 February 2016

Singapore Airlines delays A350-900 deployment on Amsterdam route till May 2016

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals



Singapore Airlines has delayed deployment of its first Airbus A350-900 aircraft on its Amsterdam route from April 2016 to June 2016. Its first A350-900 aircraft from Airbus will arrive in Changi Airport on 3 March 2016.

Pilot familiarity flights of the A350 aircraft will be conducted on short-haul routes to Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) and Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta (Cengkareng), dates unspecified, before deploying it on services to Amsterdam in May and launching the inaugural scheduled flight to Dusseldorf from Singapore on 21 July 2016.

Singapore Airlines has a total purchase order of 63 A350 aircraft with an optional order of 20 more A350 aircraft including 7 A350ULR longer-range extra wide-body (XWB) aircraft.

Singapore Airlines expects to receive 11 A350XWB aircraft this year.

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