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Capacity Up By 3.1 Per Cent In Northern Summer Schedule
New services to Nanjing and New York to be launched
20 January 2004

Singapore Airlines (SIA) will increase its capacity in terms of available seat kilometres by 3.1 per cent when the Northern Summer schedule comes into effect on 28 March 2004. The Airline will launch two new services during the coming months, to Nanjing and New York, the latter being a non-stop service using the A340-500 super long-range aircraft.

The thrice-weekly service to Nanjing, together with seven additional frequencies to its other Chinese cities, will increase the number of SIA services to China to 53 a week. Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province and an important industrial base in eastern China, is well known for its historic and cultural sites. It will become SIA’s fifth destination in China.

Daily non-stop flights to New York will begin in mid-2004, using the latest addition to SIA’s fleet, the A345LeaderShip. The service to the Big Apple will take 18 hours in each direction, offering reduced travel time of up to six hours, non-stop convenience and greater comfort to the long-haul business traveller.

Elsewhere, three additional services will be mounted to Surabaya, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi in Southeast Asia and seven in the Southwest Pacific region – five to Melbourne and two to Auckland. In Europe, SIA will now fly daily to Amsterdam (up from four a week) and three times to Athens (up from twice). Details of all the increases are overleaf. All increases are subject to government approval.