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Sunday, Apr 20, 2003
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Airlines Logistics - Airlines AI to cut services to Singapore Our Bureau
NEW DELHI, April 19 AIR India is to curtail the number of flights that it operates from India to Singapore - from 14 flights-a-week to 10 flights-a-week from April 21. Further, the airline is to offer connections from only two cities — Mumbai and Chennai from April 21. At present, it offers connections to Singapore from four cities including Hyderabad and Delhi, which are being temporarily suspended. Similarly, flights to Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta — the two destinations in South-East Asia, to which some of the Singapore flights are extended in the normal schedule, will also be temporarily discontinued. In a statement, the airline said that the decision had been taken due to lack of passenger demand due to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the directive of Indian Pilots' Guild (IPG) asking its members not to operate flights to Singapore. Executive pilots are also being deployed by AI for operating flights to Hong Kong and Kuwait. The IPG had earlier this month asked its members not to operate flights to Hong Kong, due to SARS, and to Kuwait, due to the war in Iraq. Meanwhile, Indian Airlines has no immediate plans to discontinue flights to either Bangkok or Singapore, despite their being a drop in passenger loads to Singapore.
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