Pursuits
Singapore Air Backs Two-Stop Flights as Manchester Gets A350 Boost
- New Airbus wide-body operates to U.K. city and on to Houston
- Frankfurt ‘hop’ will be retained for some New York services
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Singapore Airlines Ltd. deepened its commitment to two-stop flights after deploying the world’s newest wide-body jet on services that call in at Manchester, northern England, en route to Houston, Texas.
The Asian carrier this week upgraded the flight, which it operates under so-called fifth-freedom rights, to Airbus Group SE’s A350-900 jet, of which it has only 10 in the fleet, from Boeing Co.’s older 777-300ER.