Singapore Airlines (SIA) expects to phase out its remaining Boeing 747-400 passenger within around three years and is all but ruling out ordering the 747-8 freighter to replace its 747-400 freighters.

CEO Chew Choon Seng told analysts at a briefing this week following the release of fiscal 2007/8 financial results that “I think we would be out of passenger versions of the 747s by about 2010, 2011, thereabouts”.

Star Alliance member SIA has been progressively retiring 747-400 passenger aircraft and the fleet is less than half the size of what it was four years ago, with 18 remaining in service today. In the last financial year alone it removed five from service.

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