Singapore Airlines passes in 2020 to business class completely flat

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by Chris Chamberlin | June 2, 2019

Singapore Airlines is committing to business clbad and the Star Alliance member plans to deploy beds lying on their beds. all Fleet of devices: not only for business travelers making longer journeys and perhaps one night, but even for those venturing over short distances, such as Singapore-Kuala Lumpur.

Focused on the integration of SilkAir into the Singapore Airlines brand – SilkAir being currently the regional arm of Singapore Airlines, operated as a separate carrier – the move aims to ensure consistency in business clbad, regardless of the direction taken by each pbadenger.

"We will have the liar-fiat business clbad even on the shortest flights, even on the narrow bodies!" Says Goh Choon Phong, CEO of Singapore Airlines, proudly sharing Australian Business Traveler on the sidelines of the annual general meeting of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in Seoul.

"We are investing a lot in this area – at least $ 100 million – but one of the considerations is when This case becomes available for the Boeing 737, "which constitutes the majority of the current fleet of SilkAir," and it is only in 2020, "he continues.

Once this coveted seat can begin to make its way into the airline's fleet, Singapore Airlines plans to transfer some of its existing Boeing 737 SilkAir aircraft to the cheap Scoot arm, "to accelerate our upgrade of the fleet to narrow body … so that SilkAir – Singapore Airlines – can simply accept new deliveries of Boeing 737 "with platforms already installed.

While the airline plans to begin this transition process in 2020, when the first plane lying flat should take the plane aboard a SilkAir Boeing 737 aircraft, the current grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX could delay the planned deployment of its fleet of platforms. .

Airlines do not yet know when the Boeing 737 MAX will be able to fly safely – SilkAir having six of these jets in its current fleet, but others on order – any delay in its cabin modernization program is too early to put it in place.

Meanwhile, Singapore Airlines continues to modernize its own fleet with flat-bottomed jet planes, taking the seats of the previous generation on various routes, including between Australia and Singapore.

After the introduction of the Airbus A350 (platform) on flights between Brisbane and Adelaide in Singapore, Perth is preparing for a flat reform: its pair of daily flights SQ226 / SQ213 from an older Boeing 777-200 to a new A350 from June 3, 2019, the airline is approaching its goal to have flat berths on each flight, regardless of its duration.

Chris Chamberlin attends the IATA General Assembly in Seoul as a guest of IATA.