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).