Singapore Airlines to launch Singapore-San Francisco

Singapore Airlines will this week announce non-stop flights between Singapore and San Francisco.
The new direct route will see the airline’s factory-fresh Airbus A350 jet pressed into service on a flight estimated to take some 16 hours, although there’s currently no start date for the inaugural non-stop service.
SQ’s Star Alliance partner already runs daily Singapore-San Francisco flights on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
The move comes ahead of Singapore Airlines’ plan to restart non-stop flights to Los Angeles and New York from 2018 using a new ultra-long-range version of the Airbus A350, which will be fitted with all-new business class seats currently being designed for its second raft of Airbus A380s.
Airbus has confirmed to Australian Business Traveller that there’ll be only around 170 seats, compared to some 300 in SQ’s standard mid-range A350.
Singapore Airlines previously ran non-stop ‘all business class’ flights to Los Angeles and NY-adjacent Newark on the older four-engined Airbus A340 fitted with 100 seats, but axed the service in 2013 due to the rising fuel costs.
Singapore Airlines currently flies to Los Angeles and San Francisco via Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo; New York via Frankfurt; and Houston with a stop in Moscow.
Australian Business Traveller