SilkAir to launch non-stop flights between Singapore and Hiroshima
SINGAPORE — Three weekly return flights between Singapore and Hiroshima, Japan, will start from Oct 30, regional airline SilkAir announced on Tuesday (May 30).
Itsukushima Shrine, which was registered as a Japanese world cultural heritage by UNESCO in December 1996, is covered by colored leaves in Miyajima, Hiroshima Prefecture. The wooden structure on the sea was built in the architectural style of the Heian period in 593. Photo: AFP
SINGAPORE — Three weekly return flights between Singapore and Hiroshima, Japan, will start from Oct 30, regional airline SilkAir announced on Tuesday (May 30).
The service by SilkAir will be the only non-stop flights between the two cities, and it will ply the route on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, subject to regulatory approvals on its fleet of Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
Flights will depart Singapore at 1.45am and touch down in Hiroshima at 9.30am, while return flights will leave Hiroshima at 10.25am and reach Singapore at 3.40pm.
SilkAir chief executive Foo Chai Woo said: “Hiroshima has been popular with Singaporeans, due to its historical significance, good weather and proximity to various attractions in neighbouring cities.”
Hiroshima is known for being one of Japan’s major sake-producing areas. The prefecture in the Chugoku region of Japan also has two World Heritage sites: The Itsukushima Shrine and the A-Bomb Dome of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.
Singapore Airlines also connects to five other Japanese airports: Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo Narita and Tokyo Haneda.
On Tuesday, Singapore Airlines launched its new route to Stockholm, Sweden. The inaugural service to Stockholm departed Singapore Changi Airport at 33 minutes past midnight, and arrived at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport at 8.59am the same day.
Flights between Singapore and Stockholm will operate five times a week, via Moscow. The new route is being served with the latest-generation aircraft, the Airbus A350-900.
The new services are part of the joint venture agreement between Singapore Airlines and Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) that took effect in 2013 covering flights between Scandinavia and Singapore.
SAS has also commenced codeshare on the new services.
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this story, we reported that besides Hiroshima, SilkAir also files to five other Japanese airports. It is the combined Singapore Airlines-SilkAir network that will serve a total of six Japanese cities with the launch of Hiroshima. We are sorry for the error.
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