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Singapore Airlines returns to Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane

written by Adam Thorn | June 2, 2020

A Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-200 at the Brisbane Airport international terminal. (Brisbane Airport)
A Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-200 at the Brisbane Airport international terminal. (Brisbane Airport)

Singapore Airlines is set to resume flights to Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane for the first time since the closure of Australian and Singaporean borders.

The airline will also add additional routes to Sydney as part of its new ‘minimum connectivity network’ that will run from 8 June to 31 July.

Singapore Airlines’ regional vice president, Philip Goh, said the move was a “small first step” towards international travel, but still warned there is a “long way to go” before the meaningful return of capacity.

“With Australia’s travel restrictions remaining at Level 4, these flights will provide additional cargo capacity for carriage of imports and exports between the cities and our global network, while allowing people who have an urgent and essential need to travel, or return home, to do so,” said Goh.

Singapore Airlines will add flights to Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney but a new Singapore-Sydney-Brisbane-Singapore circular service will be subject to regulatory approval.

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The new routes are outlined in full at the bottom of this page and also include the resumption of twice-weekly operations to Auckland and once-weekly flights to Christchurch.

Other destinations served as part of the wider network include Amsterdam, Bangkok, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Manila, Narita, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai and Zurich.

Last week, Singapore Airlines also announced it was expanding its cargo-only passenger flights to meet demand for capacity for exports out of Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

It also comes after Singapore Changi Airport announced it would lift its transit ban from 2 June, following similar announcements from Dubai and Hong Kong. Abu Dhabi currently allows transit but with customers remaining on the plane.

“We are committed to re-establishing Australia’s connection to Singapore and the rest of world in a COVID-safe manner during these challenging times,” Goh said. “As we increase services, our priority remains the health and safety of our customers and crew, and we will work closely with the authorities to safeguard this in every area of our operations.”

“We continue to monitor border restrictions globally and, when appropriate, will make further changes to our minimum connectivity network.”

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Comments (15)

  • Kevin

    says:

    Why isn’t the Australian Government insisting Qantas to fly these routes, supporting Australian jobs? Qantas could also fly to Dubai again, allowing it to fill seats/freight capacity that Emirates is filling and perhaps Doha to fill the OneWorld seats/freight capacity Qatar is filling. We have all these international airlines starting to pour back in but Qantas fleet largely grounded and workers on JobKeeper.

    • Jennifer

      says:

      The gov’t is paying for 14 days quarantine for PAX and crew who request it. How long can it keep that up?
      Open up the country while we still have an economy left to feed.

      • Tbear

        says:

        Yeah….and then we all die. Or, we charge pax for the quarantine. Because they are choosing to fly in a pandemic.

  • Kenneth

    says:

    Just a small correction to the 3 times weekly SIN – SYD flights. Arrival time must be 10.25 PM right?

    • Kenneth

      says:

      My mistake, still not used to the 12h AM and PM, prefer 24h times

  • Luke

    says:

    Given I am a resident in Singapore on an employment pass and I haven’t been able to get approval to return to Singapore for 3 months I can’t see any passengers being on these flights other than repatriation of citizens.

  • minty

    says:

    even though Singapore airlines fly to yssy that still doesn’t mean they use the a380 only emirates and china are currently using the a380 to Sydney.to be honest I don’t reckon there will be many a380s left after COVID 19

  • donald

    says:

    why allow SIA to take freight from Qantas?
    why our night skies filled with foreign cargo planes?
    where is the Australian fleet of cargo planes?
    is ScoMo still asleep at the wheel?

    • James

      says:

      They’re not. Perhaps business from Singapore choose to use SINCARGO.

      Because those foreign aircraft no doubt hand contracts for freight. Prior to COVID.

      The Australian fleet of “cargo planes” are flat out!!! You clearly have absolutely no idea of how many companies run freighters in Australia.

      And finally, what does any of that have to with Scott Morrison??

    • Max

      says:

      Donald you need to remember Qantas (international) is a Sydney airline, not a national airline. Adelaide would have had zero international flights of we had to rely on the flying rat

  • Oliver

    says:

    I think we should all give Qantas a break and realise the situation it is in. Why should they fly when they wouldn’t make a profit, digging them into an even bigger debt. While Singapore operates in a much more comfortable financial situation and has the demand to operate a financially foreseeable situation to operate to Australian hubs.

    • Tbear

      says:

      Because we’ve given them millions of taxpayer money to pay bloated salaries of CEOs. So the CEOs can darn well pay Australians to get in the plane and fly it. … instead of pocketing the cash and firing employees. ..

  • John

    says:

    Is it still possible for me to buy ticket to travel from Hanoi to Singapore, then from Singapore to Adelaide?

  • Natasha Constantinides

    says:

    My original flight from Singapore – Brisbane has been moved to Singapore – Sydney – Brisbane. My question is, as an International traveller, will I not need to quarantine on arrival into Sydney? Or will I be allowed to complete my journey to Brisbane and quarantine on my arrival there? Any advice gratefully received 🙂

  • Kaia Parnaby

    says:

    were you able to transit into brisbane? I am looking at getting the same flight and am curious about where I will be made quarantine. Thank you

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