SIA to increase flights to key cities from March to October 2025 amid higher demand

SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) will increase flight frequencies and boost passenger capacity to key cities from March to October 2025.
The move is in support of a higher demand for air travel to several popular destinations, SIA in a news release on Monday (Aug 12).
The airline will have a daily service to London Gatwick Airport from Mar 30, 2025. This is an increase from its five times weekly services.
Combined with SIA’s current four-times daily flights to London’s Heathrow Airport, the airline will have five daily services to the United Kingdom.
Flights to Rome will also increase to five times a week between Jun 26, 2025, and Aug 28, 2025 – up from the current four weekly flights.
There will also be more direct flights to Milan and Barcelona, said SIA.
The airline will delink its three-times weekly Singapore-Milan-Barcelona flights from Jun 24, 2025, to Sep 7, 2025.
Instead, it will mount five-times weekly direct flights to Barcelona during this period, up from the current two weekly flights.
Milan will have a daily service, up from four times weekly, SIA said.
Flights to Adelaide will increase to 10 times a week “across the Northern Winter 2024 and Northern Summer 2025 seasons” starting end October 2024.
Meanwhile, flights to Ho Chi Minh City and Siem Reap will also increase.
Ho Chi Minh City will be a thrice daily route –  up from 19 times weekly, and services to Siem Reap will be twice daily, up from a daily service.
SIA said it will also increase flights to Johannesburg to 10 times a week from Dec 11. 2024, to Jan 10, 2025, and Apr 2, 2025, to Oct 24, 2025.
This is an increase from the current daily services during these periods, it said.
SIA will also be suspending its services to Houston via Manchester from Apr 1 next year but it will still maintain a five times a week service between Singapore and Manchester.
Meanwhile, flights to Tokyo’s Narita airport will be on an Airbus A380 between Mar 30, 2025, and May 31, 2025, on one of its two daily services. This replaces the Boeing 787-10.
The A380 will also stop operating to Mumbai from Jul 28, 2025, to Aug 31, 2025, and Delhi from Jun 23, 2025, to Jul 27, 2025, and will be replaced by the Boeing 777-300ER, said SIA.
“Singapore Airlines regularly reviews our network and routes to align our capacity with demand,” said the airline’s acting senior vice president for marketing planning Dai Haoyu.
“These adjustments, ahead of next summer, cater to the higher demand to several destinations, particularly during the traditional mid-year peak travel season, enabling our customers to confidently make their 2025 travel plans,” he added.