It seems the constant border closures is doing no airline any good -this time with Singapore Airlines it is making further cuts.
Singapore Airlines Airbus A330-300 at Singapore Changi – Image, Economy Class and Beyond
The latest cuts takes the airline down by 50% of total capacity (compared to this time time last year) .
The airline states that
Given the growing scale of the border controls globally and its deepening impact on air travel, SIA expects to make further cuts to its capacity.
For now, let’s go through the cuts. As usual, they are summarised below are the routes that are affected. Note, that in some cases these cancellations are for one or two days at a time and not through the entire timetable. This, however, is route dependant.
Check the list here for the exact dates
A brief list of destinations hit (stars against routes indicate new cancellations):
North America
- Houston (via Manchester UK) *
- Los Angeles
- Los Angeles (via Tokyo) *
- New York (via Frankfurt)
- Newark *
- San Francisco
- San Francisco (via Hong Kong)
- Seattle
Europe
- Copenhagen
- Paris
- Dusseldorf
- Frankfurt
- Barcelona via Milan
- Milan
- Rome
- Barcelona
- Istanbul
- Zurich
- London-Heathrow
- Amsterdam *
- Stockholm via Moscow *
South West Pacific
- Adelaide
- Brisbane
- Cairns (SilkAir)
- Canbarra via Sydney *
- Darwin (SilkAir)
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Sydney
- Wellington via Melbourne *
- Auckland *
- Christchurch
Africa and West Asia
- Dhaka
- Ahmedabad
- Bengaluru (Singapore Airlines and SilkAir)
- Chennai (SilkAir)
- Cochin (SilkAir)
- Hyderabad (SilkAir)
- Kolkata (SilkAir)
- Mumbai
- Male (Singapore Airlines and SilkAir) *
- Kathmandu (SilkAir)
- Cape Town via Johannesburg *
- Johannesburg
- Colombo (SilkAir)
- Dubai
North Asia
- Beijing
- Chengdu (SilkAir)
- Chongqing (SilkAir)
- Guangzhou
- Shanghai
- Shenzhen (SilkAir)
- Xiamen (SilkAir)
- Hong Kong
- Hiroshima (SilkAir)
- Fukuoka
- Nagoya
- Osaka
- Tokyo-Haneda
- Tokyo-Narita
- Busan
- Seoul
- Taipei
South East Asia
- Brunei
- Phnom Penh (SilkAir)
- Siem Reap (SilkAir)
- Bali (SilkAir)
- Balikpapan (SilkAir)
- Bandung (SilkAir)
- Jakarta
- Makassar (SilkAir)
- Lombok (SilkAir) *
- Medan (SilkAir)
- Semarang (SilkAir) *
- Surabaya (SilkAir)
- Yogyakarta (SilkAir)
- Manado (SilkAir) *
- Kuala Lumpur (SilkAir and Singapore Airlines)
- Penang (SilkAir)
- Yangon (SilkAir)
- Cebu (SilkAir)
- Davao (SilkAir)
- Manila
- Bangkok
- Koh Samu (SilkAir)
- Phuket (SilkAir and Singapore Airlines)
- Danang (SilkAir)
- Hanoi (Singapore Airlines and SilkAir)
- Ho Chi Minh City
Again, the cancellations are vaired during their dates. You are strongly advised to check your booking as well as consulting the cancellation list at https://www.singaporeair.com/saar5/pdf/media-centre/200318flightcanxtable_updated.pdf
In quotes
Singapore Airlines CEO Goh Choon Phong said:
“We have lost a large amount of our traffic in a very short time, and it will not be viable for us to maintain our current network. Make no mistake – we expect the pace of this deterioration to accelerate. The SIA Group must be prepared for a prolonged period of difficulty.”
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