SIA A380 flies to Frankfurt and New York

The inaugural Singapore–Frankfurt–New York service departed Singapore shortly after midnight on 16 January 2012.

Singapore Airlines said flight SQ26 is scheduled to make its inaugural touchdown in Frankfurt at 0610hrs local time and will then depart the German city at 0820hrs and arrive at New York’s JFK airport at 1110hrs. It has more than 450 customers on board.

Representing a daily increase of 25% in seat capacity, the daily A380 flights will replace an existing daily Boeing 747-400 service to JFK Airport via Frankfurt.

Frankfurt and New York will be Singapore Airlines’ ninth and tenth destinations to receive the superjumbo. Frankfurt is Singapore Airlines’ fourth point in Europe to be added to the list, after London, Paris and Zurich, while New York is the second point in North America, after Los Angeles.

Singapore Airlines is the world’s first carrier to operate the A380 in October 2007 and has since carried more than 6 million customers on the superjumbo system-wide. SIA currently has 15 A380s in service and four more on firm order.