Singapore Airlines reduces capacity; warns of more cuts to come

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Singapore Airlines is the latest airline to suspend additional services across its network, and has warned that there is more to come.

These latest suspensions, which will be posted on the airline’s website sometime today, mean that SIA will operate only 50% of the capacity that had been originally scheduled up to end-April 2020.

Given the growing scale of the border controls globally and its deepening impact on air travel, SIA has said that it expects to make even more cuts to capacity in the future.

The company is also actively taking steps to build up its liquidity and is consulting unions once again as it urgently takes steps to further cut costs.

SIA CEO Goh Choon Phong said: “We have lost a large amount of our traffic in a very short time, and it will not be viable for us to maintain our current network. Make no mistake – we expect the pace of this deterioration to accelerate. The SIA Group must be prepared for a prolonged period of difficulty.”

Tickets for flights that are cancelled will automatically be converted into an open ticket for travel that only needs to be completed by 31 March 2021. Due to the large number of flight cuts, affected customers do not need to contact SIA directly, they only need to provide their details in a form found here when their new travel plans have been firmed up, and the airline’s customer service agents will then contact them.