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Skip to contentSingapore Airlines has once again started taking deliveries of brand new Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 aircraft this week, adding to its 120-strong fleet.Singapore Airlines is finally taking delivery of wide-body passenger aircraft again this week, for the first time in seven months, with a brand new Airbus A350 and a brand new Boeing 787-10 touching down at Changi, ready to enter service in April.That’s great news for the airline’s ability to continue expansion as travel demand rebounds post-pandemic, and we expect three more A350s and three more 787-10s to arrive in the coming months.ADVERTISEMENTThe carrier’s active passenger fleet now stands at over 120 aircraft, practically the same as pre-COVID, though that’s still around 30 aircraft short when you consider that SilkAir has now been fully merged into the mainline operation.Here are the Singapore Airlines passenger fleet totals at 31st March 2023.&nbsp;CAAS Database:147&nbsp;&nbsp;Recently delivered:For disposal:Yet to enter service:+1-13-1&nbsp;&nbsp;In Service:134&nbsp;&nbsp;In maintenance / stored:-10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The official registered aircraft data in combination with confirmed retirement announcements and analysis of actual flight movements over the last few weeks allows us to determine the actual ‘in service’ fleet (available to the airline) of 134 planes at 31st March 2023, 124 of which were recently active.That’s 12% more than this time last year, when around 110 passenger aircraft were active in the fleet.&nbsp;&nbsp;Click here to see the official CAAS list of registered aircraft in Singapore at February 2023.The following table shows the Singapore Airlines fleet including how many of each aircraft type are legally registered (‘Registered’), available to the airline (‘In Service’) and currently operating revenue passenger flights (‘Active’).A350-900 LH313029A350-900 MH242424A350-900 ULR777A380-80015129737-800976737-8 MAX161615777-200500777-300ER262319787-10151515All the airline’s remaining registered Boeing 777-200s will not be returning to the fleet, in addition to three older Airbus A380s, three Boeing 777-300ERs and two Boeing 737-800s.These are therefore excluded from the ‘In Service’ column.This reflects a future fleet of 134 aircraft, plus future deliveries of Airbus A350s, Boeing 737-8 MAXs, Boeing 787-10s and Boeing 777-9s still on order.Singapore Airlines has suffered a four-month drought of new aircraft deliveries, picking up the keys to its most recent Boeing 737 MAX back in November 2022.That comes despite a strong order book, but unfortunately also at a time of further Boeing 787 delivery postponements by regulators, which we touched on in our recent article summarising the mess that has been the Dreamliner’s design and production.SIA hit by Boeing 777-9 and 787 delivery delaysREAD THE ARTICLESIA hit by Boeing 777-9 and 787 delivery delaysREAD THE ARTICLEThis has led SIA to postpone entry into service of several Boeing 787-10s that had been due to arrive in the fleet over the last year, while the carrier’s Boeing 777-9 deliveries now look set to be arriving a full five years late.Luckily this week there are two brand new wide-body deliveries to report on, in the form of an Airbus A350 and (yes, at last!) a Boeing 787-10.Reg.VariantDeliveredService Entry9V-SJFLong Haul29 Mar 2023Pending(Apr 2023)9V-SJF arrived at Changi shortly after 1pm on 30th March 2023, having been formally delivered to the carrier in Toulouse the previous day.The aircraft is a three-class long-haul variant of the type, and as with most new A350s arriving in the fleet we expect it to enter service in the coming days once the engineers here have ‘kicked the tyres’ a bit, and all the relevant safety equipment and literature has been put in place.ADVERTISEMENTOnly three more passenger Airbus A350s are due for delivery to Singapore Airlines, all of which will be the Long Haul variant and all of which should happen this year:After that, SIA will start taking delivery of seven Airbus A350 freighters from late 2025, which will replace the carrier’s ageing Boeing 747-400 freighters over in the cargo division.Reg.DeliveryService Entry9V-SCS31 Mar 2023Pending (Apr 2023)It’s been a long time since Singapore Airlines took delivery of a new Boeing 787-10 – in fact it has been over three years, with the last example arriving in November 2019.Thankfully 9V-SCS is now in line for delivery, with its flight from Charleston to Changi (via Nagoya for refuelling) originally scheduled to touch down here at 11.30pm on 1st April 2023, but pushed back by a few hours, so it will now arrive at 3.30am on 2nd April 2023.This is the first Boeing 787 delivery to Singapore Airlines for over 40 months.As you may notice, it’s also an out-of-sequence delivery, with 9V-SCP, -SCQ and -SCR originally due to arrive first, but following months of storage for these jets it seem like -SCS was simply the ‘most ready’, and Singapore Airlines is no doubt tired of waiting for these planes, after numerous delays.9V-SCP and -SCQ have both been on test flights recently, and will hopefully be delivered in the coming weeks.Singapore Airlines took delivery of six new Boeing 737-8 MAX aircraft in 2022, and promptly put all these aircraft into revenue service… except one.9V-MBL was delivered on 26th February 2022, then was repainted from SilkAir colours into the Star Alliance colour scheme (photo here) in April 2022, but for some reason has never been brought into service.ADVERTISEMENTThis is the first SIA narrow-body aircraft to receive the Star Alliance colours and it would be nice to see it in action, especially as its deployment could help accelerate the removal of the ex-SilkAir Boeing 737-800s, with their inferior cabin products.It’s still a mystery why 9V-MBL remains parked.Only one of SIA’s future 12-strong fleet of Airbus A380s still needs to have the latest cabin products fitted before it re-enters service, and that’s 9V-SKP.This one has been in the hangar since October 2022, and based on previous refit timescales we should see it enter the fleet as the final superjumbo returning post-COVID by around mid-2023.The A380 is now being used extensively on the network, including to Hong Kong, London, Sydney and Shanghai.Further expansion for the A380s in 2023 includes Melbourne, Delhi and a second daily Sydney service, though the Singapore – Frankfurt – New York route sadly downgrades to a Boeing 777-300ER this summer.Here’s a breakdown of the SIA fleet of passenger aircraft based on recent revenue passenger or cargo-only flight activity, based on an analysis conducted on 31st March 2023.All but two of the 31-strong Airbus A350-900 Long Haul fleet was active in March 2023, with 29 aircraft flying revenue services over the last two weeks.9V-SML is in maintenance, while 9V-SJF has yet to enter service.9V-SMASIN31 Mar 2309V-SMBSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMCSIN30 Mar 2319V-SMDSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMESIN31 Mar 2309V-SMFSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMGSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMHSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMISIN31 Mar 2309V-SMJSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMKSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMLSIN12 Mar 23199V-SMMSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMNSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMOSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMPSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMQSIN30 Mar 2319V-SMRSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMSSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMTSIN30 Mar 2319V-SMUSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMVSIN31 Mar 2309V-SMWSIN30 Mar 2319V-SMYSIN29 Mar 2329V-SMZSIN31 Mar 2309V-SJASIN31 Mar 2309V-SJBSIN30 Mar 2319V-SJCSIN30 Mar 2319V-SJDSIN30 Mar 2319V-SJESIN30 Mar 2319V-SJFSINTo enter service‘Last flew’ dates relate to the aircraft’s most recent revenue flight.All 24 Airbus A350-900 Medium Haul aircraft were flying recently.9V-SHASIN31 Mar 2309V-SHBSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHCSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHDSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHESIN30 Mar 2319V-SHFSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHGSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHHSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHISIN31 Mar 2309V-SHJSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHKSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHLSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHMSIN25 Mar 2369V-SHNSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHOSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHPSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHQSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHRSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHSSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHTSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHUSIN25 Mar 2369V-SHVSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHWSIN31 Mar 2309V-SHYSIN31 Mar 230‘Last flew’ dates relate to the aircraft’s most recent revenue flight.All of the airline’s Airbus A350-900 ULR aircraft are in service, covering regular San Francisco, New York JFK and Newark flights.9V-SGASIN28 Mar 2339V-SGBSIN30 Mar 2319V-SGCSIN30 Mar 2319V-SGDSIN30 Mar 2319V-SGESIN29 Mar 2329V-SGFSIN30 Mar 2319V-SGGSIN31 Mar 230‘Last flew’ dates relate to the aircraft’s most recent revenue flight.A total of nine Airbus A380s are currently in regular service, with 9V-SKP the final superjumbo under refit, as mentioned above.9V-SKN and 9V-SKT are already in the new configuration, but are undergoing maintenance at Changi.9V-SKFSIN24 Mar 201,1029V-SKKASP21 Mar 201,1059V-SKLASP27 Mar 201,0999V-SKMSIN31 Mar 2309V-SKNSIN17 Mar 23149V-SKPSIN24 Mar 201,1029V-SKQSIN30 Mar 2319V-SKRSIN30 Mar 2319V-SKSSIN31 Mar 2309V-SKTSIN17 Nov 221349V-SKUSIN30 Mar 2319V-SKVSIN30 Mar 2319V-SKWSIN31 Mar 2309V-SKYSIN31 Mar 2309V-SKZSIN31 Mar 230‘Last flew’ dates relate to the aircraft’s most recent revenue flight.7 out of the 9 Boeing 737-800s that moved across from SilkAir to Singapore Airlines remain in regular service with the mainline carrier, with 9V-MGA and -MGB now deemed surplus to requirements and set for disposal, as revealed in May 2022.ADVERTISEMENT9V-MGC appears to be in maintenance, but as we recently noticed, with only two routes on the cards for these jets this summer there may be scope for further retirements earlier than the planned 2025 wind-down for this unpopular fleet.9V-MGASIN5 May 223309V-MGBSIN21 May 223149V-MGCSIN17 Mar 23149V-MGDSIN31 Mar 2309V-MGESIN31 Mar 2309V-MGKSIN31 Mar 2309V-MGLSIN31 Mar 2309V-MGMSIN30 Mar 2319V-MGNSIN28 Mar 233‘Last flew’ dates relate to the aircraft’s most recent revenue flight.SilkAir’s last passenger flight was on 6th May 2021, from Kathmandu to Singapore. Don’t miss our tribute to the regional subsidiary’s rich 29-year history.Farewell SilkAir, after 29 years’ service as SIA’s ‘Regional Wing’READ OUR TRIBUTEFarewell SilkAir, after 29 years’ service as SIA’s ‘Regional Wing’READ OUR TRIBUTEAs mentioned earlier, 15 out of 16 SIA Boeing 737-8 MAX aircraft are now in regular service, with only 9V-MBL to join the fold in its Star Alliance livery.9V-MBASIN30 Mar 2319V-MBBSIN31 Mar 2309V-MBCSIN31 Mar 2309V-MBDSIN19 Mar 23129V-MBESIN31 Mar 2309V-MBFSIN31 Mar 2309V-MBGSIN30 Mar 2319V-MBHSIN31 Mar 2309V-MBISIN31 Mar 2309V-MBJSIN31 Mar 2309V-MBKSIN31 Mar 2309V-MBLSINTo enter service9V-MBMSIN31 Mar 2309V-MBNSIN31 Mar 2309V-MBOSIN31 Mar 2309V-MBPSIN31 Mar 230‘Last flew’ dates relate to the aircraft’s most recent revenue flight.9V-MBD might be in maintenance, given its 12-day break from service.Boeing 777-200s will not return to the SIA fleet, with the five aircraft still owned by the airline in storage at Alice Springs or Changi.9V-SRGASP1 Feb 201,1549V-SRHASP23 Mar 201,1039V-SRJASP7 Jun 201,0279V-SRLASP24 Mar 201,1029V-SRPSIN24 Mar 201,102‘Last flew’ dates relate to the aircraft’s most recent revenue flight.19 of SIA’s 26 registered Boeing 777-300ERs were active over the last two weeks, and increase of two compared to our December 2022 update, no doubt thanks to continued Boeing 787 delivery delays.ADVERTISEMENTThe other 7 aircraft are stored at Changi (5) or Alice Springs (2), though as we already reported 9V-SWD, -SWE and -SWF will not rejoin the fleet, leaving only 4 to be activated again.9V-SWBSIN31 Mar 2309V-SWDSIN19 Mar 201,1079V-SWESIN1 Feb 217889V-SWFSIN28 Sep 209149V-SWGSIN31 Mar 2309V-SWHSIN31 Mar 2309V-SWISIN31 Mar 2309V-SWJASP4 May 201,0619V-SWKASP1 Aug 216079V-SWLSIN31 Mar 2309V-SWMSIN24 Dec 214629V-SWNSIN24 Dec 214629V-SWOSIN31 Mar 2309V-SWPSIN29 Mar 2329V-SWQSIN31 Mar 2309V-SWRSIN31 Mar 2309V-SWSSIN30 Mar 2319V-SWTSIN30 Mar 2319V-SWUSIN30 Mar 2319V-SWVSIN31 Mar 2309V-SWWSIN30 Mar 2319V-SWYSIN30 Mar 2319V-SWZSIN31 Mar 2309V-SNASIN31 Mar 2309V-SNBSIN21 Mar 23109V-SNCSIN30 Mar 231‘Last flew’ dates relate to the aircraft’s most recent revenue flight.All of SIA’s 15 Boeing 787-10s are currently active.9V-SCASIN30 Mar 2319V-SCBSIN31 Mar 2309V-SCCSIN29 Mar 2329V-SCDSIN31 Mar 2309V-SCESIN31 Mar 2309V-SCFSIN31 Mar 2309V-SCGSIN31 Mar 2309V-SCHSIN31 Mar 2309V-SCISIN31 Mar 2309V-SCJSIN31 Mar 2309V-SCKSIN31 Mar 2309V-SCLSIN31 Mar 2309V-SCMSIN31 Mar 2309V-SCNSIN31 Mar 2309V-SCOSIN31 Mar 230‘Last flew’ dates relate to the aircraft’s most recent revenue flight.As mentioned above, 9V-SCS will be the newest addition in the days ahead.There are still 10 SIA group aircraft in storage at Alice Springs, as outlined in the following table.AirlineAircraftTotalAirbus A3802Boeing 777-2004Boeing 777-300ER2Airbus A3202Some of these (like the Boeing 777-300ER aircraft) should be returned to service, while some others (like the Boeing 777-200s) will eventually be sold.The A380s will likely be scrapped in Alice Springs – there is simply no future for these aircraft except for their spare parts sadly.Here’s how the latest total SIA Group orders for fleet modernisation and replacement looks, after taking account of the recent delivery of Airbus A350 9V-SJF and the imminent delivery of Boeing 787-10 9V-SCS.Delivery of Boeing 777-9s, which will sport the airline’s latest Suites and Business Class products, has slipped to 2025 at the earliest, with 2026 looking like a more realistic prospect now that SIA has been issued its first line production slots.&nbsp;&nbsp;New aircraft deliveries are back for SIA in 2023, with one A350 Long Haul and, perhaps more significantly, a Boeing 787-10 both winging their way to Changi to join the fleet and help the airline restore capacity post-COVID.The arrival of a new Boeing 787-10, almost unbelievably, will be the first of its kind for the airline in over three years.We expect at least a further three Airbus A350s and three Boeing 787-10s to arrive this year, further bolstering the airline’s ability to restore pre-COVID capacity, and even expand service to various markets.Stay tuned for the next fleet update later in 2023.(Cover Photo:&nbsp;Plane’s Portrait Aviation Media&nbsp;/ Malcolm Lu)ADVERTISEMENTMBL &amp; SKT are in hangar right nowReplyHi, do you think it impacts business class seat redemption availability?If I’ve a stack of Citipoints for redemption and I’m keen on Biz class travel to Europe/US， which frequent flyer program would you advise I redeem miles with for best value? Thanks!ReplyInteresting that there are 3 B777-F in the group orders list that are not mentioned in the article, are these the ones in the DHL/SIA JV? But not a real part of SQ’s official order list?ReplyThe lack of new plane deliveries whether delayed or not has certainly not affected SIA’s bottom line…and all Classes of travel and Routes have seen substantial price increases …and Business Class fares have been doubled ( at least ) for almost a year…There is no valid or logical reason for such large and across the board price hikes…other than like most other Corporations the opportunity to make greater profits was taken because nobody could or wanted or were able to stop them as they deflected the blame for their opportunism for other things .. And so they went for it at the expense of the majority who fund Everything but most of which have the least protections or support against Greed and the actions of this Selfish Minority that will never stop wanting more of that which they don’t already have …despite it being the most alreadyReplyFollow us on Facebookflipboard.com/@MainlyMiles

Skip to contentSingapore Airlines has once again started taking deliveries of brand new Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 aircraft this week, adding to its 120-strong fleet.Singapore Airlines is finally taking delivery of wide-body passenger aircraft again this week, for the first time in seven months, with a brand new Airbus A350 and a brand new Boeing 787-10 touching down at Changi, ready to enter service in April.That’s great news for the airline’s ability to continue expansion as travel demand rebounds post-pandemic, and we expect three more A350s and three more 787-10s to arrive in the coming...

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