SIA opens new Perth lounge ahead of 4th daily flight

Singapore Airlines (SIA) has opened a new lounge at Perth Airport, a month ahead of its resumption of four daily flights from the WA capital. The redesigned SilverKris lounge will serve SIA’s business class and qualifying frequent travellers, with the airline to add a fourth flight per day from 31 March. The extra flights will use 303-seater A350-900 aircraft, adding 220,584 more seats to the Perth market per year. According to Perth Airport’s chief commercial and aviation officer, Kate Holsgrove, SIA is Perth’s number one international airline for seat capacity, delivering more than 930,000 seats per year. “Singapore Airlines has been instrumental in growing WA’s business, education, trade, and tourism links with Singapore,” she said. “Singapore has become Western Australia’s second largest international visitor market, injecting $260m into the WA economy in visitor expenditure alone last year.” “The airline also has a long and proud record of linking the world with Western Australia and the additional flights will provide even more options for West Australians to travel to multiple cities in Asia, Europe and the USA via its Singapore hub.”<br/>