dean Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 You can fly, M-Thurs, through March 31, for as low as $748 round trip on Singapore Airlines. No FF miles, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Nice but no savings for me as I would have the expenses of getting to SFO and then to BKK from HKG. For just a trip to HKG, sounds like a good price these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean Posted December 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 It would be a good value for someone that wanted to come to Thailand, with a stopover in Hong Kong (can book air asia out of Macau). I've only flown Singapore Airlines once but it certainly beats all of the "cheap" air carriers to Asia (Eva, China Air, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damen Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 It would be a good value for someone that wanted to come to Thailand, with a stopover in Hong Kong (can book air asia out of Macau). I've only flown Singapore Airlines once but it certainly beats all of the "cheap" air carriers to Asia (Eva, China Air, etc). SQ beats any carrier flying from North America to Asia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samak Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 i just flew SFO - HKG on SQ01 in biz class last saturday! it's a 15 hours flight and it's not on the new A380 or 777, but a 747 with not completely flat seats! nevetheless i slept around 8 hours. so i guess also coach seats are not the most modern ones! service was very good though as was the food...and biz was completely full! also timing is excellent as it leaves SFO midnight and arrives 0655am the day after! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samak Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 alternative by the way was SFO - ICN on a SQ 777 with fully reclined seat! but the Singapore bastards wanted 500 usd surcharge for this leg; the same as they wanted for A380 SIN - LHR; i wouldn't pay that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchapstick Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 SQ1/2 start using the 77W sometime in January Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samak Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 that's a significant reduction of capacity! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USVirgin Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 And probably a smart move in these times. First time I flew SQ1 SFO-HNL-HKG, I was working at LAX with my girlfriend who worked for SQ. I worked for their handling agent, Air New Zealand, and the two of us planned to depart LAX after work on the the LAX-HNL-TPE flight and switch planes in HNL to get to HKG, but the flight from LA was cancelled. So the Hong Kong bound passengers were transferred to PSA to get up to SFO to make the flight, as my girlfriend and I also decided to do. Since we were both still in our airport uniforms, it was a working trip. We were helping passengers find the bags in both SFO and HKG, that kind of thing. The passengers couldn't have been nicer, but we were like tour guides escorting them through the whole inconvenience. We changed out of our uniforms in flight, but they still recognized our faces from when they first checked-in at LAX. It was not a bad experience at all, just strange to be working when you're supposed to be on holiday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchapstick Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Reportedly, SQ is phasing out all of their 747's in favor of the WhaleJet and the 77W. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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