SIA’S LATEST DESTINATION: CHICAGO, HOME OF THE BLUES

Singapore Airlines (SIA) will proudly launch its thrice-weekly services to Chicago this week, with the inaugural flight departing tomorrow, Wednesday 1 August.

Flights will depart Singapore on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 2335 hours and arrive in Chicago’s O’Hare airport, via Amsterdam, at 1005 hours the next day. Singapore bound flights will depart Chicago at 1955 hours on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, arriving in Singapore two days later at 0700 hours or 0730 hours, depending on day of departure.

The inaugural flight to Chicago marks the introduction of the newest addition to the SIA fleet, the Boeing 777-200ER (extended range) aircraft, which has a seating capacity of 30 in Raffles Class and 255 in Economy Class.

Said Mr Tan Chik Quee, Senior Vice President Marketing, “We are constantly looking at opportunities to increase the travel options we offer our customers. Chicago is a vibrant business and financial centre, known also for its architecture, music and entertainment scene. We believe the new service will be popular with the travelling public in Singapore, the Netherlands and the United States.”

Passengers travelling to Chicago on the new B777-200ER aircraft can look forward to enhanced seating comfort with more legroom. They will also be able to experience the new generation KrisWorld entertainment system, offering an even wider selection of movies, short features and games.

For the first time ever, passengers will be able to engage in friendly competition with their fellow travellers through the SIA Inflight Challenge, SIA’s first multi-player game, which takes the form of a general knowledge quiz.

The new-generation KrisWorld system also provides passengers in all classes with audio and video on demand, allowing them to enjoy entertainment at the time of their choice, and start, pause, stop, rewind and fast forward audio and video entertainment as they wish.

Chicago, known as ‘Home of the Blues’ – will be SIA’s fourth destination in the USA, following New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. With this new destination, SIA will now operate 42 weekly direct flights from Singapore to these cities.

Singapore Airlines, together with its regional subsidiary, SilkAir, fly to 90 destinations in 40 countries. Together with our code-share partners, we have a global reach of 119 destinations in 41 countries.