The nuts could go, so could the menus (nice touch but anyway less than 50% of passengers are looking at them), the amenity kit is useless anyway.
But if they cut all that, they have less reason to justify their premium pricing. The saving is not that big either.
3-4-3 in the 77Ws would just add capacity SQ would need to fill. More empty seats flying around. Not sure if this added capacity is required.
In my opinion the cost savings are somewhere else:
The ageing 777 regional fleet comes into my mind (some of them still stored in the desert). Especially the last retrofitting round of some of the old birds didn't make sense to me. Cut the losses and sell them. Stick to newer more efficient planes. Anyway, I believe that SQs fleet is to big for the network they are providing.
Cut the tag-on flights within Europe and Australia (or don't even start them). They are nice to have, surely enable SQ to offer more destinations, but they are costly. And the destinations are usually low-yield.
Cut flights which are not performing, some of the new routes for instance are not doing that well. SQs focus needs to shift away from the crowded Europe routes, they cant fight ME3 with cost cutting.
But if they cut all that, they have less reason to justify their premium pricing. The saving is not that big either.
3-4-3 in the 77Ws would just add capacity SQ would need to fill. More empty seats flying around. Not sure if this added capacity is required.
In my opinion the cost savings are somewhere else:
The ageing 777 regional fleet comes into my mind (some of them still stored in the desert). Especially the last retrofitting round of some of the old birds didn't make sense to me. Cut the losses and sell them. Stick to newer more efficient planes. Anyway, I believe that SQs fleet is to big for the network they are providing.
Cut the tag-on flights within Europe and Australia (or don't even start them). They are nice to have, surely enable SQ to offer more destinations, but they are costly. And the destinations are usually low-yield.
Cut flights which are not performing, some of the new routes for instance are not doing that well. SQs focus needs to shift away from the crowded Europe routes, they cant fight ME3 with cost cutting.
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