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SIA halves capacity

They also stated that further capacity cuts are underway.

Singapore Airlines (SIA) will now operate only 50% of the capacity that had been originally scheduled up to end-April, a press release revealed.

The airline is also expecting to make further capacity cuts, given the growing scale of border controls.

This follows after SIA has suspended a number of inbound and outbound flights across China, Japan, South Korea and the US amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

“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,” SIA’s CEO Goh Choon Phong said in a statement.

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