SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines budget carrier Scoot will look into adding more flights to Malaysian destinations, including Ipoh during the festive seasons.
Scoot chief executive Singapore Airlines budget carrier Scoot will look into adding more flights to Malaysian destinations, including Ipoh during the festive seasons.e officer Leslie Thng said the low-cost carrier is currently flying 88 times a week from Singapore to Malaysia from 80 times weekly pre-pandemic.
"That's a 10 per cent increase in terms of frequency. Of course when demand is even stronger, for example during the festive seasons, we'll look at whether we have the ability to add supplementary flights to cater to the increase in demand during the festive seasons," he said.
Leslie was responding to a question by Business Times on increasing Scoot's flight frequencies between Singapore and Malaysia at a media roundtable organised by the Singapore Airlines here today.
Speaking on the flight frequency to Ipoh, Leslie said currently Scoot is flying 17 times a week from Singapore to the destination.
"When we started Ipoh many years back, it was only a daily service. Today we're already 17 times a week. That's quite an increase in terms of frequency to cater to the increase in demand," he added.
Currently, Scoot flies from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, Kota Kinabalu, Ipoh, Kota Bharu, Kuching, Kuantan, Langkawi, Miri and Penang.
In October this year, Transport Minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook had requested Scoot to add more flights between Singapore and Ipoh especially during the weekends and festive seasons.
The minister said there were many Malaysians including the ones from Simpang Pulai, Bercham and within the Kinta valley area in Perak who work in Singapore and return to Ipoh during the festive seasons.
"I believe that by adding more flights, it will help to boost the country's and the state's economy," Loke was quoted in reports.