Adelaide Boosted by Singapore Flights
Singapore Airlines will fly to Adelaide twice a day, three days a week, boosting tourists over the summer.
Singapore Airlines became the first international airline to operate daily flights to Adelaide back in 2007. Since then Cathay Pacific has operated services from Hong Kong seven days a week and Malaysia Airlines from Kuala Lumpur six days a week.
This week Singapore Airlines confirmed it would have two flights a day on Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays from December 9 to January 31. The move follows lobbying by the South Australian Tourism Commission for additional flights.
For the three new flights, Singapore Airlines will use a wide-body Boeing 777-200 aircraft of 12 business-class and 276 economy seats. It means an additional 864 international seats into Adelaide each week.
It will be the first time Adelaide Airport will have more than one flight a day from the same international airline, taking the airport’s weekly tally of international services to 36.
SA Tourism Commission destination development manager Nick Jones said this was good news for South Australia. He said, “There is much competition in the region for additional seasonal services and the airline has shown great faith in the SA market.”
Singapore Airlines’ SA manager, Andrew Soo, said 10 flights a week to Adelaide underlined the city’s importance to the airline. He said SA travellers on the new flights would have a greater choice of connections to destinations such as London and Frankfurt for same-day travel.
Cathay Pacific announced last week it would launch non-stop services from Adelaide to Hong Kong three days a week from November. The other flights will continue to include a stopover in Melbourne.
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