Singapore Airlines is adding four supplementary flights to Taipei per week until May to meet increased tourist and business travel demand, the carrier said on Friday.
The addition would raise the number of weekly flights it operates to Taipei to 18, Singapore Airlines Taiwan general manager Timothy Ouyang (歐陽漢源) said.
The airline has recorded a steady rise in tourist and business travel to and from Taipei, and aims to provide more flexible travel arrangements for passengers, said Ouyang, who assumed the post in July last year.
Photo: Tony Yao, Taipei Times
From now until Saturday next week, four additional flights would depart from Singapore on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 10:45am, with the return flight taking off from Taipei at 4:40pm on the same day.
From March 29 to May 31, the flights from Singapore would depart at 10am, while flights from Taipei would leave at 4:10pm.
As of January, the airline’s passenger network covered 136 destinations in 37 countries and territories, Singapore Airline North Asia regional vice president Lee Sek Eng (李錫榮) said.
The airline has also increased the number of weekly flights to Colombo, Sri Lanka, to 10 since January.
For the northern summer operating season from March 29 to Oct. 24, the airline would deploy its A380 aircraft on daily flights to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and add more flights to Bangkok; Barcelona, Spain; Cairns, Australia; Surabaya, Indonesia; and Yangon, Myanmar, subject to regulatory approval.
“We will adjust our network and capacity according to demand,” Lee said.
In addition to an updated entertainment system and other new in-flight offerings, the airline said it plans to progressively introduce high-speed low Earth orbit satellite connectivity for enhanced Wi-Fi across its long-haul fleet.
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