Tiger Airways, Jetstar Asia to increase S'pore-KL
flights from Dec 1
SINGAPORE: In aviation news, the competition on the
Singapore-Kuala Lumpur (KL) route is heating up.
Tiger Airways announced Thursday it will increase its flights
between the two cities starting from December 1.
Instead of one return flight a day, it will operate up to five
flights each way daily.
Tiger Airways says this will result in more than 40,000 seats a
month each way.
The announcement comes ahead of the next stage of liberalisation of
flights between Singapore and Malaysia, which will start in
December.
Apart from flights to KL, services between Singapore and other key
Malaysian cities are also expected to be liberalised in the next
few years.
In response to queries from Channel NewsAsia, Jetstar Asia says it
will increase its schedule to 19 flights a week between Singapore
and KL, starting from December 1.
Budget carriers from both sides of the Causeway were given access
to the lucrative Singapore-KL route in February 2008.
- CNA/yt