Singapore Air to expand India ops

Bangalore: Singapore Airlines is planning to significantly increase its capacity for India. The airlines is hopeful of doubling its flight services from Bangalore soon by introducing 10 weekly flights.

The airline has already increased the capacity from Delhi by 10 per cent while Mumbai, which has been the top 20 route for the airline, will also witness a capacity enhancement.

David Lim, General Manager India, Singapore Airlines, said told FC that: “We are expanding our capacity in India by adding more frequency and flight services. There has been a substantial increase in the number of passengers between India and Singapore. Singapore is also emerging as afavoured transit hub for Indians travelling to Australia, US and other geographies.’’

As per data released from Changi Airport Group, the passenger traffic between Singapore and India was 4.76 million in 2018, a 12 per cent growth over the previous year.