SIA to launch non-stop flights to London’s Gatwick Airport in June 2024.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) will launch its inaugural nonstop flights between its Singapore hub and London’s Gatwick airport in June 2024, operating the five-times a week service with the long-haul variant of its Airbus A350-900 aircraft.
Together with its current four-times daily services to London’s Heathrow airport, this will bring the total number of flights to the United Kingdom’s (UK) capital to 33 weekly services from today’s 28 weekly services.
Subject to regulatory approval, flight SQ310 will operate on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
The inaugural flight will depart Singapore for Gatwick at 2355 on 21 June 2024 and arrive in London at 0625 on 22 June 2024.
The return leg, flight SQ309, will operate from Gatwick to Singapore on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, departing at 1015 on 22 June and arriving in Singapore at 0620hrs on 23 June 2024.
SIA’s long-haul A350-900s feature 253 seats in three cabin classes: 42 in 1-2-1 configured business class, 24 in premium economy class, and 187 in economy class.
The addition of Gatwick increases the number of European destinations in the SIA network to 14 – Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Istanbul, London (Heathrow), London (Gatwick), Manchester, Milan, Munich, Paris, Rome, and Zurich.