Reuters - 1 hour 11 minutes
ago
SINGAPORE, March 4 - Singapore Airlines said on Tuesday it will
convert five Airbus aircraft into all-business class seating, for
its non-stop Singapore-New York and Singapore-Los Angeles
flights.
"The peak demand for the non-stop flights is from our business
class customers, and this change will expand business class
capacity from 64 to 100 seats on each flight," said executive vice
president Huang Cheng Eng in a statement.
The carrier's change to focus on more higher-yielding business
traffic comes despite forecasts that growth in demand for air
travel is expected to slow this year, hit by fears of a U.S.
recession that could hurt business travel.
Singapore Air, the world's biggest airline by stock market
value, said the flights on the A340-500 planes will be phased in
from mid-May, replacing the current arrangement of 181 seats for
economic and business classes.