Singapore’s Scoot boosts Bangkok frequency, capacity

Singapore-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Scoot will expand its services from Singapore to Bangkok’s Don Mueang LCC hub, to fly 10 Boeing 777-200 flights a week to the Thai capital. The airline will also replace its existing 777 schedules from Changi Airport with new 787s as they arrive from the US-based manufacturer starting in May.

Although Scoot bills itself as a long-haul LCC, the new schedules will help give it and its sister Singapore Airlines (SIA) subsidiary Tigerair increased regional capacity.

Tigerair currently only flies into Bangkok’s main airport, Suvarnabhumi International.

Scoot CEO Campbell Wilson has already hinted at closer ties between the two SIA offshoots, with the use of 787 aircraft and linked routes to help “concrete steps toward realizing the full potential of our complementary networks,” he said recently.

The new flight schedules will take off in the daytime morning hours, rather than current “graveyard” schedules back to Singapore.

“The upcoming rollout of joint-venture routes, deeper system integration and schedule co-ordination will …. provide greater convenience and flight options,” said Lee Lik Hsin, Group CEO of Tigerair.

(Jeremy Torr - ATWOnline News)