Sabre Travel Network Nepal: April 2010

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Silk Air flights from Bangalore, Chennai

Silk Air, the full service regional airline wing of Singapore Airlines Group, does not foresee any significant increase in passenger rush in the near future.The airline, operating the narrow body fleet of the parent group to different destinations in Asia, sees the demand to be stable, and hot going upwards'."We don't see the demand going upwards at present, but we see an increase in demand from India where the response to our service continues to be good," Silk Air Public Affairs head So ray a Salim said. Silk Air is all set to launch daily services from Bangalore starting May 17 and Chennai from June 14, subject to regulatory approvals. The introduction of the new services will complement Singapore Airlines' existing daily flights to both cities and increase the daily flights operated by the group to the two cities to two each. Expansion plans Of the 400 flights it operates every week to thirty three destinations in 11 countries, Silk Air has daily direct flights to Singapore from Hyderabad and Kochi in addition to tri weekly flights from Thiruvananthapuram and Coimbatore. Asked about the expansion plans. Ms. So ray a said the company would operate the flights on all routes, including the two new routes, with the existing fleet of 17 Airbus A 320 family aircraft (11 A 320 and 6 A 319).