Singapore Air backs two-stop trips as Manchester gets A350 boost

LONDON (Jan 19): Singapore Airlines 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.

Singapore Air also serves New York via Frankfurt and will fly to Stockholm with a stop in Moscow from May. There may be scope for adding other such routes, Sheldon Hee, its general manager for the UK and Ireland, said in an interview.

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