Singapore Airlines (SIA) will offer more than 700,000 seats a year between Brisbane and Singapore when it adds a fourth direct service operating three days a week from late May 2016, with the aim of increasing it to daily later in the year.
Fifty-two per cent of SIA’s passengers travelling to and from the Queensland capital are international visitors. Of these, nearly 90 per cent originate in a country other than Singapore, with key markets including the UK, India and China. The fourth flight will offer new Eastern Europe connections to passengers three days a week.
Julieanne Alroe, the CEO and managing director of Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC), welcomed the news. “Each year Singapore Airlines draws in visitors from many countries across Asia and Europe, carrying more than half a million passengers to and from Brisbane [and] reinforcing its presence as a major contributor to Queensland tourism, especially considering its network breadth of 60 destinations in 33 countries,” she said.
The importance of Brisbane as the primary gateway to Queensland should not be underestimated. “Brisbane Airport offers international airlines the necessary market to support inbound and outbound business and leisure passengers, the benefits of which ripple across the industry,” said Alroe.
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Jeremy Tredinnick
