After announcing a massive scrapping rationalisation of services which saw many of its destinations transferred to Scoot, SilkAir is certainly springing a surprise here: daily services to Cairns from June to October 2019, the better half of the Northern Summer season.

Currently, SilkAir is operating five weekly services to Cairns. The additional services will be on Tuesdays and Sundays, operated with SilkAir’s latest Boeing 737 MAX 8.

The full schedule is as below:

Route	Flight	Departure	Arrival	Flight Time	Days	Aircraft type
SIN-CNS	MI811	0110	0955	6h 45m	Mon, Thu, Sat	Boeing 737 MAX 8
SIN-CNS	MI813	0845	1715	6h 30m	Tue, Wed, Fri, Sun	Boeing 737 MAX 8
CNS-SIN	MI812	1045	1525	6h 40m	Mon, Thu, Sat	Boeing 737 MAX 8
CNS-SIN	MI814	1815	2305	6h 20m	Tue, Wed, Fri, Sun	Boeing 737 MAX 8

SilkAir’s furthest destination

At over 6 hours, Cairns is probably the furthest destinations on SilkAir’s network, even longer than the newly launched Hiroshima in Japan (that sits at 6 hours 15 minutes).

That makes the flight an incredibly unattractive one, given that 6 hours is an awfully long time to be sitting in a narrowbody aircraft, and if you are up in the pointy end, an awful load of money to spend sitting on a recliner seat especially on the overnight services that departs on some days.

You are probably better off flying to Brisbane and transferring onto a domestic service operated by Virgin Australia, whom Singapore Airlines owns partly.

Apart from the northern city of Queensland, SilkAir also operate six weekly services to Darwin, also known as the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory.