Singapore Airlines to serve Beijing’s Daxing
Singapore Airlines to serve Beijing’s Daxing
Singapore Airlines is planning to start a direct connection between the city-state and Beijing’s Daxing International Airport. If regulators approve, flights will commence on November 11th with SQ810 leaving Singapore at 00.30 and touching down in Daxing at 06.35 (local times). It will return as SQ811 departing from Beijing Daxing at 09.25, and arriving back in Singapore at 15.50. The aircraft will be a Boeing 787-10, featuring 36 seats in business class and 301 in economy.
Daxing is located to the south of Beijing allowing easier access to the port city of Tianjin via a new high-speed rail link, and to cities in southern Hebei province via an extensive network of highways and trains.
The Airline will also increase its frequencies to Beijing Capital International Airport to 21 weekly services, up from 18, from August 5th. This will bring the number of weekly flights to the city to 28 in total from November. Singapore Airlines also operates flights to six other airports in China including, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Xiamen. Combined with the group’s low-budget carrier, Scoot, which serves Changsha, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Haikou, Hangzhou, Jinan, Kunming, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, Ningbo, Qingdao, Shenyang, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xi’an and Zhengzhou, the company now covers a total of 24 destinations in China.
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“China is a key market for the Singapore Airlines Group. This new flight to Beijing Daxing allows SIA to offer an additional daily service to Beijing, a popular destination for both tourist and business travellers. With 24 destinations in the group’s mainland China network, we offer some of the best options and connections for travel between Singapore and China, and beyond,” said Dai Haoyu, Acting Senior Vice President of Marketing Planning, at Singapore Airlines.
Image: Boeing 787-10 by Paul Schmid via Wikimedia Commons