Singapore Air Unit Bucks Trend to Sound Bullish on China Demand
- Budget airline Scoot calls mainland ‘an important market’
- Airlines, industry groups say weak demand in post-Covid China
Scoot is now operating about 25-30% of its pre-Covid capacity to China.
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Singapore Airlines Ltd.’s low-cost carrier Scoot is bullish on air travel from China bouncing back as it reintroduces flights to the mainland, despite industry worries about weak demand in world’s second-largest aviation market.
“China is an important market for Scoot,” the airline’s Chief Executive Officer Leslie Thng told Bloomberg Television in an interview Thursday. “China will further help Scoot to go back up to pre-Covid capacity and beyond pre-Covid capacity.”