Singapore Airlines wants more flights to India

Bangkok: Singapore Airlines (SIA) has asked the Indian government to give it more slots to fly to the country as the international carrier is already facing up to 20 percent overbooking on the sector ahead of winter vacations.
'India is in favour of deregulation,' said Chew Choon Seng, chief executive of SIA, expressing optimism that the Singapore-based international carrier will get more slots to meet the demand for international travel in India.
Between January and August this year, passenger traffic between Singapore and India grew 17.5 percent compared to the same eight months of the previous year.
Presently, SIA has 55 flights to India a week and is hoping to get double dailies to Delhi from its present seven flights a week by summer 2008, subject to clearance from India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
The last bilateral air services agreement with India was inked in January this year but SIA hopes more slots will be allowed before the next one is negotiated between the two countries.
21/11/07 Neelam Mathews/Earthtimes, UK

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Categories: Foreign Nov 2007