Singapore Airlines capacity reduction rises to 29%

With demand for air travel continuing to decline, primarily due to the SARS virus, Singapore Airlines (SIA) today announced further frequency reductions, bringing its total capacity cuts in April and May 2003 to 28.9 per cent in terms of available seat kilometres.

This latest round of cuts, which affects services in all regions but especially North and South East Asia, will result in up to 298 fewer weekly frequencies during the month of May. Services to five destinations that were previously suspended until 31 May have now been terminated: Chicago, Las Vegas, Kaohsiung, Hiroshima and Mauritius.

Services to Fukuoka and Jeddah will be temporarily suspended from 8 May and 15 May respectively.

The launch of services to Bangalore, initially planned for 1 May and later deferred until 12 June, has again been deferred, with no new date decided at this stage.

The table below shows the original number of frequencies to the affected destinations (in accordance with published schedules for Northern Summer) and the revised number, after deducting those that have been cut during the month of May. Figures in the "revised frequency" column take into account reductions announced earlier.

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