Scoot announced yesterday that starting in October, it would increase flights between Taipei and Japan’s Narita airport and Hokkaido, and between Singapore and Taipei.
The low-cost airline, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, also said it would launch flights to Chiang Rai in Thailand, Okinawa and Tokyo’s Haneda airport between December and March next year.
Flights between Singapore and Chiang Rai would begin on Jan. 1, with five flights per week operated by an Embraer E190-E2 aircraft, Scoot said.
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Flights between Singapore and Okinawa would begin on Dec. 15, with three flights per week operated by Airbus A320 aircraft, the airline said.
Services between Singapore and Haneda are scheduled to launch on March 1, with one weekly service operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, it said.
Scoot also announced increased frequencies to meet anticipated holiday travel demand. From October, direct flights between Taipei and Narita would increase from 12 to 14 per week, while from next month, flights between Taipei and Hokkaido would increase from four to seven per week.
Flights betweem Singapore and Taipei would increase from 23 to 25 per week in October, and to 28 per week in December, the airline said.
From January next year, flights between Singapore and South Korea’s Jeju Island would also increase from five to seven per week, it added.
For Europe-bound travelers, flights between Singapore and Vienna would rise from three to four per week starting in March.
Separately, AirAsia yesterday said that its AirAsia X subsidiary would launch four weekly direct flights between Kuala Lumpur and Istanbul, Turkey, from Nov. 14.
Passengers from Taipei or Kaohsiung would be able to connect in Kuala Lumpur for the direct service to Istanbul, the airline said.
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