Singapore Airlines to cut 5 weekly flights to Jakarta from Dec 1

SIA said it will cut five weekly flights to Jakarta from December on instructions from Indonesian civil aviation authorities. "The Indonesian authorities have informed the airline that five flights must be cut due to runway maintenance works at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport," said SIA Monday. The five weekly flights being cut are SQ962 and SQ963 on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The airline operates 63 flights a week to and from Jakarta. Earlier this month, the airline said it had to postpone plans for a thrice-weekly service linking Singapore, Jakarta and Sydney after Indonesia withdrew its approval. Runway maintenance work at the Jakarta airport was also cited as the reason. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) said that it was aware of SIA’s cut in flight services to Jakarta. “CAAS hopes that the runway maintenance works will be completed expeditiously and that the impact on airlines will be fairly distributed,” it said. “CAAS also hopes that the Indonesian civil aviation authorities will be able to allow Singapore Airlines to resume all 63 weekly services to Jakarta as soon as possible to reduce the impact on business travellers and tourists, who rely heavily on air services to travel between Singapore and Jakarta.”<br/>