Singapore Airlines flexes muscles against Indian competition

In the face of increasing competition on the India-Singapore sector, Singapore Airlines is set to add a new daily flight between Mumbai and Singapore. The daily flight will take off at 10 pm from Mumbai and is expected to start from October.
At present, Singapore Airlines has a morning daily flight service between the two cities as well as a daily flight at around 12 a.m.
The new flight time will mean that the two Singapore Airlines' daily flights will sandwich its Indian competitors who take off at 11 p.m. daily from Mumbai.
“We see that the evening flights are much more popular because the flight takes off at night and lands in Singapore early morning giving passengers the full day to enjoy in Singapore,” said Mr G M Toh, General Manager-India, Singapore Airlines.
“Seeing the competition on the sector for the evening flight time, we decided to go all out and offer two daily flights in the evening,” he added.
06/09/11 Business Line

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