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The Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group has announced on Monday (Aug 31) that Singapore Airlines, Jetstar Asia, Silk Air and Scoot will operate their flights to six more destinations. The airlines have also increased the frequency of selected flights in their passenger network from August to November.
The six destinations consist of Perth in Australia, Phnom Penh in Cambodia, Milan in Italy, Cebu in the Philippines, Taipei in Taiwan and Istanbul in Turkey.
Scoot, a subsidiary airline of SIA Group, said on Tuesday (Sept 2) that it will resume flight operations to 7 more destinations that include Clark, Kaohsiung, Osaka, Pekanbaru, Palembang, Tokyo and Yogyakarta this month. The airline added these destinations to the 13 destinations where it previously operated in the last month.
Jetstar Asia, the budget carrier, has also confirmed on Monday (Aug 31) that it will resume the flight operations to Phnom Penh in Cambodia from Sept 18. The budget airline will launch a program to provide more assurances for the safety of passengers in the flight. The program includes key measures of health protocols such as providing sanitizing wipes to each passenger during the flight, sequential boarding, cleaning of the aircraft and more.
The flag carrier Singapore Airlines said last week that it would start increasing the frequency of flights to cities such as London, Jakarta and Sydney in the coming three months. The airline will also restart flights to Surabaya in Indonesia this month.
SIA Group said that by the end of November, SIA Group’s passenger capacity will reach around 11 per cent of its capacity in January before the outbreak of COVID-19. It further said that its flag carrier and Silk Air will continue to adjust capacity to meet the demand for international air travel.
Passengers of Singapore Airlines, Silk Air and Scoot can transit via Changi Airport from approved points to destinations in the SIA Group network. However, it is currently not allowed to transfer to destinations in Mainland China due to regulatory requirements.
Mr. Shukor Yusof, Aviation analyst from Endau Analytics, has said that the outlook for airlines is still bleak and they will have to endure for a while, despite the increase in flight operations. “While it won’t help the bottom line, any incremental rise, however small, represents a psychological uplift for staff and passengers,” he added.
