Singapore Airlines to resume flights to 3 Chinese cities from Apr 22 after disruption due to 'regulatory reasons'

FILE PHOTO: Singapore Airlines planes sit on the tarmac in Singapore's Changi Airport March 3, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File PhotoSINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines flights to Chongqing, Chengdu and Xiamen will resume from Apr 22, the national carrier said on Monday .

Checks of SIA’s website showed that return flights to Chongqing are available from end-April until end-October, while those between Singapore and Chengdu are available from end-Apr to end-May. SIA flights operating between Singapore and Xiamen are also available from end-April to end-May. Aviation analysts CNA spoke to suggested a few reasons for service disruptions, including capacity limits and the unavailability of flight slots.Independent analyst Brendan Sobie said that the suspension might be because the carrier had not managed to obtain approval for the summer season, which runs from end-March to end-October, in time.

As a result, SIA has had to obtain approvals from Chinese authorities. It managed to do so belatedly for the winter season last year, which runs from end-October to end-March. At that time, SIA did not sell seats on the affected routes beyond end-March, Mr Sobie stressed, adding that the regulatory issue had been going on “for a long time”.“The old SilkAir slots were permanent but are now lost.

Agreeing with Mr Sobie’s assessment, transport analyst Terence Fan from the Singapore Management University said that scheduled air passenger traffic in and out of China comes with more constraints compared to that of many other countries. But the suspension in flights may not only be due to reasons arising from China, but could be a decision by local airlines as well.

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