Demand for flights to China has risen recently, Singapore Airlines exec says

Reuters

Thu, May 15, 2025, 10:11 PM 1 min read

SEOUL (Reuters) -Singapore Airlines has seen a surge successful rider postulation into China successful caller months, but outbound question has inactive not recovered to pre-pandemic levels, Chief Commercial Officer Lee Lik Hsin said connected Friday.

"We person seen rather a surge successful inbound question into China successful the past six months oregon so," Lee said astatine a quality briefing pursuing the merchandise of their yearly results.

Load factors, oregon the stock of seats sold connected flights, connected the carrier's China flights person improved to wrong the 80% range, compared to the 70% scope past year, helium said.

Asia's post-pandemic aerial question betterment has lagged successful places owed to China, the world's second-largest economy, being slower than the remainder of the satellite to instrumentality to planetary flying.

Capacity into China for the carrier's afloat work hose has mostly recovered to pre-pandemic levels, but low-cost subsidiary Scoot is flying astir 80% of its pre-COVID capableness into China, helium said.

Singapore Airlines connected Thursday reported a grounds yearly nett profit, boosted by a one-off summation from a merger of its 49%-owned Indian bearer Vistara and Air India, but little aerial fares successful effect to accrued contention weighed connected operating profit.

(Reporting by Lisa Barrington; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)