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I’m glad I got to fly Singapore Airlines’ fifth freedom route between Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and Manchester Airport this past weekend (review here) as the route is being cut in April 2025. Singapore has been flying this route since October 2016.
Singapore Airlines to drop its 🇬🇧Manchester – 🇺🇸Houston route from 1 April 2025
The airline will maintain 5x weekly flights between 🇸🇬Singapore and 🇬🇧Manchester, whist the 🇸🇬Singapore – 🇬🇧London Gatwick will increase to a daily flight pic.twitter.com/ceRIU5DbMo
— Sean M 🌈✈ (@SeanM1997) August 12, 2024
The route will be dropped in April 2025 after nine years of flying. The 5x weekly service has been operated by an Airbus A350-900 with 42 Business Class, 24 Premium Economy, and 187 Economy Class seats. While this route will be gone, Singapore Airlines will continue to fly between Singapore Changi Airport (SIN) and Manchester Airport (MAN) 5x weekly.
Singapore Airlines flies to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), New York John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK), San Francisco International Airport (SFO), and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport from Singapore Changi Airport (SIN). It also runs two other fifth freedom routes to/from the United States with Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Tokyo Narita Airport (NRT) as well as New York John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and Frankfurt Airport (FRA) seeing scheduled service.
Dai Haoyu, Acting Senior Vice President Marketing Planning at Singapore Airlines, said:
Singapore Airlines regularly reviews our network and routes to align our capacity with demand. These adjustments, ahead of next summer, cater to the higher demand to several destinations, particularly during the traditional mid-year peak travel season, enabling our customers to confidently make their 2025 travel plans. We look forward to connecting our customers to the world with SIA’s extensive network, and delivering an unparalleled travel experience.”
Anthony’s Take: I’m sad to see this route go and hope that Singapore adds another fifth freedom route in the future. It’s so cool to fly the carrier between the United States and Europe.
(Featured Image Credit: Singapore Airlines.)
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My wife and I flew this route in business class in May this year and it was pretty nice. We liked it enough that I booked another award in business class for four of us to fly from Houston to Asia next May. Now I’m at a complete loss on how to approach SQ about flying out of EWR or JFK for the same price where no saver space is showing. In my experience, Singapore reservation agents are pleasant but take insanely long times to accomplish fairly basic requests. Any suggestions appreciated.
They are going to have to accommodate you somehow. I’d push for UA and then SQ from LAX or SFO. I know the phone process can be a burden.