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Orient Aviation's COVID-19 briefs: Singapore Airlines and its subsidiaries accepting transit passengers from Australia and New Zealand

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June 11th 2020

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  • Singapore Airlines (SIA) and subsidiaries, SilkAir and Scoot, have started accepting transit passengers from Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Christchurch, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney travelling through Changi Airport to any destination in the airline group's network. An airline statement said the flights were for outbound journeys only. Read More » Passengers will be gathered in a designated area at Changi and seated separately from non-transit passengers on flights.
  • Taiwan-based EVA Air's monthly traffic report showed the airline carried 21,831 passengers in May, a 98% reduction from 1.09 million a year ago. Demand in revenue passenger kilometres (RPK) dropped 97.1% from a year earlier and available seat kilometres (ASK) were cut by 91.8%. Load factor was 52.4 percentage points lower at 28.5%.
  • Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) could receive a five billion ringgit (US$1.2 billion) capital injection from its owner, the country's sovereign wealth fund, Khazanah Nasional Berhad, to help it ride out the coronavirus pandemic, Bloomberg news agency reported today. The agency cited "people familiar with the matter" as the source of the information. MAB said it was in ongoing discussions on the subject and Khazanah declined comment.
  • Still in Malaysia, the New Straits Times newspaper reported today Lion Air group carrier, Malindo Air, was scheduled to operate a full domestic schedule from tomorrow. Malindo resumed limited flying on April 27. It shut down operations on March 18 in compliance with the Malaysian government’s movement control order.
  • India Minister for Civil Aviation, Hardeep Singh Puri, said on his Twitter account yesterday the country's airlines had carried 800,000 passengers since restrictions on domestic flights were lifted on May 25. He added there had been a "steady upward trend" in flights and travellers. The minister said there were 1,006 total aircraft movements on Wednesday (up to 1700 local time), with the number of flyers at 52,486 and total footfall at airports of 97,994.
  • Japan Airlines (JAL) said yesterday there had been a "slight recovery in the demand for travel" on its domestic network following the lifting of the country's State of Emergency. The oneworld alliance member said Japan was scheduled to lift domestic travel restrictions on June 19, which would allow residents to visit various prefectures in the country.

    JAL’s update outlined plans to cancel 7,368 domestic flights from June 15 to June 30, a 54% reduction compared with its pre-pandemic schedule. There was a 72% cancellation rate in the first two weeks of June.
  • Air New Zealand (Air NZ) intends to resume passenger flights between Auckland and Tokyo Narita from June 25. Passengers on the once weekly service with 787-9 equipment would be subject to government border controls at both ends of the journey, it said. If the minimum number of passengers required to operate the flights was not met, the flight could be cancelled no later than 72 hours before departure. Air NZ currently operates cargo-only flights to Tokyo.
  • Virgin Australia (VA) said today it planned to double its domestic capacity by early July, representing an extra 320 flights, or about 30,000 seats, a week. VA group chief commercial officer, John MacLeod, said in a statement the capacity boost was in response to demand for air travel returning as restrictions in some Australian states were eased. The airline is introducing a sequenced boarding and disembarkation process and a health questionnaire passengers must complete before travelling.

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