Scoot to suspend flights to four cities

It cited weak demand and a shortage of aircraft resources.

Budget airline Scoot will be suspending its services to four cities, Lucknow, Kalibo, Quanzhou and Male, due to a combination of weak demand and a shortage of aircraft resources, an announcement revealed.

The aircraft shortage is arising as SilkAir, due to the grounding of its Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleet, will no longer transfer its Boeing 737- 800NG aircraft to Scoot in FY 2019/2020, as originally announced in November 2018.

Scoot serves Lucknow, Kalibo and Quanzhou three times weekly, and Male four times weekly. The last flights departing Singapore and the four cities will be in June (for Lucknow and Kalibo), August for Quanzhou and October for Male.

However, Scoot will continue to undertake the routes that SilkAir had earlier committed to transfer over, including Luang Prabang and Vientiane in Laos in April 2019, Changsha, Fuzhou, Kunming and Wuhan in China, between May 2019 and June 2019 and Chiang Mai in Thailand, in October 2019.

Customers with existing bookings have been contacted and provided options such as rebooking their flight at no additional cost to the same destination before the planned suspension date, obtaining a 100% refund via their original mode of payment or obtaining a 120% refund via a Scoot travel voucher.