Virgin Australia and Singapore Airlines intend to add new routes to their alliance and introduce larger aircraft on existing services to boost capacity, as the first firm details of the proposed partnership emerge.Documents tendered to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) by both carriers list a series of new 'city pairs' under consideration by the airlines, although these have been blanked out from public issue as being 'commercial-in-confidence'.
Singapore Airlines already flies from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth to Singapore. However, Virgin Australia will not codeshare with Singapore Airlines on cities where it has an existing arrangement with Etihad, such as Brisbane.
"While the alliance will provide Virgin Australia with the ability to codeshare on Singapore Airlines services between Brisbane and Singapore, Virgin Australia has an existing codeshare with Etihad on this route" the submission notes. "Virgin Australia does not intend to codeshare with both airlines on this route."
The proposal also outlines plans to boost passenger capacity by introducing 'larger aircraft' on flights between Australia and Singapore.
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