SIA to boost India capacity
- Health & Leisure
- Thursday, 09 January 2020
Singapore Airlines (SIA) will introduce a fifth weekly flight to Kolkata, India, from 29 March 2020.
On the same day, the Airline’s regional wing SilkAir will cease services to the city.
Currently, SIA operates four weekly flights and SilkAir operates three weekly flights to Kolkata.
SIA’s Kolkata services will continue to be operated by the A350-900 medium haul aircraft.
In addition to Kolkata, SIA operates to five other points in India - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai and New Delhi.
Scoot, SIA’s low-cost subsidiary, operates to seven points in India. These are Amritsar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Trivadrum, Tiruchirappalli and Visakhapatnam.
After this change, SilkAir will continue to operate to four points in India – Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kochi.
From 29 March 2020, the SIA Group airlines will operate more than 140 weekly flights to India.
