Singapore's Scoot eyes significant fleet expansion by YE25

Scoot (TR, Singapore Changi) plans to add around one dozen extra aircraft to its fleet this year, a mix of narrowbodies and widebodies, on top of the E190-E2s it is presently inducting, CEO Leslie Thng told reporters last week. Scoot also plans to add four to six new destinations to its network. In addition to four E2s still to be delivered from a 2023 order, Thng said the new aircraft would include seven to nine A320s and three B787s. The ch-aviation fleets module notes Scoot already operates a mix of these aircraft types, including fourteen A320-200s, six A320-200Ns, nine A321-200NX, eleven B787-8s, and ten B787-9s. Scoot's aircraft order book includes twelve A320-200Ns, six A321-200NX, two B787-8s, one B787-9, and the four E190-E2s. Thng says the airline would use the extra aircraft to increase frequencies on some existing routes and begin flights to new cities, though he did not name the candidate destinations. "We're still working on the details," he said. "For new flights and new destinations, there's a whole process that we need to go through, not just to look at projected demand, we also need to see whether we can operationalise."<br/>