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Apr 24, 2019 (newstodate): Singapore Changi Airport is set to lose its only CIS operator as Uzbekistan Airways pulls out from its route from Tashkent by the end of this month.
The Uzbek national carrier started flights on the route between Tashkent and Singapore from April 4, 2014, providing the first non-stop, direct, twice-weekly flight connecting the two countries, and boosting Singapore's ambitions of becoming a new hub for Central Asian flights.
Even before the start, prospects were bleak, however, with little demand in Singapore for the route, while passengers flying from Tashkent mostly transferred at Singapore to reach Kuala Lumpur that will remain on Uzbekistan Airways' network coupled with Jakarta, in Indonesia.
After the Uzbek carrier's retreat from Singapore from the end of April 2019, the only direct air link with the CIS region remains Singapore Airlines' flights to Moscow since March 1, 2006.
The Singapore-Moscow route was later extended from May 30, 2017, to continue to Sweden's Stockholm Airport, now served with five weekly Airbus A350-900 rotations.
The Uzbek national carrier started flights on the route between Tashkent and Singapore from April 4, 2014, providing the first non-stop, direct, twice-weekly flight connecting the two countries, and boosting Singapore's ambitions of becoming a new hub for Central Asian flights.
Even before the start, prospects were bleak, however, with little demand in Singapore for the route, while passengers flying from Tashkent mostly transferred at Singapore to reach Kuala Lumpur that will remain on Uzbekistan Airways' network coupled with Jakarta, in Indonesia.
After the Uzbek carrier's retreat from Singapore from the end of April 2019, the only direct air link with the CIS region remains Singapore Airlines' flights to Moscow since March 1, 2006.
The Singapore-Moscow route was later extended from May 30, 2017, to continue to Sweden's Stockholm Airport, now served with five weekly Airbus A350-900 rotations.