Singapore Airlines (SIA) is to suspend its flights to Kuwait City this winter as well as its direct service to Athens, but will add frequencies on a number of its current routes to destinations in Southeast Asia, North Asia and the Indian subcontinent. The Asian flag carrier currently serves Kuwait City three times per week as an extension of one of its daily Singapore – Abu Dhabi flights, while Athens is served three times weekly directly from Changi International Airport. The Kuwait City extension will be terminated from October 30, according to the latest update to its winter schedule, while Athens will continue to be served at the same frequency but as an extension of an enhanced service to the Turkish city of Istanbul.

From the same date, service increases will be adopted to Bangkok (up from four to five a day), Guangzhou (daily to double daily), Mumbai (from 14 to 17 a week), Ahmedabad (two to three per week), Cape Town (three to four a week, via Johannesburg) and Istanbul (four to six a week), although the latter remains subject to regulatory approval. As demand recovers in the Japanese market services between Singapore and Tokyo Haneda will return to twice-daily from their current daily schedules, according to SIA, while frequencies on the Singapore-Osaka route will increase to eleven flights per week from ten.

Ahead of the new Northern Winter schedule the carrier will also introduce an eighth daily flight between Singapore and Jakarta from September 15. The additional service will be operated by a 288-seat Boeing 777-200 in a three-class configuration and will bring SIA’s total weekly flights to Indonesia to 77, with subsidiary SilkAir offering a further 53 services to eight points in the country.