SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines SIA Group will suspend its services to Australia's Gold Coast region from July 2023, as it adjusts its capacity in response to demand. In its third quarter earnings report released on Tuesday, the national carrier said it had increased 12.7 per cent from the previous quarter, coming in at S $628 million - a surge that came on the back of the strong recovery in air travel demand.
SIA services to Vancouver will be suspended in October this year, the airline said.
Following the COVID 19 pandemic, Scoot resumed services to Gold Coast in February 2022. It is the only airline in Singapore to fly directly to the Gold Coast.
In January 2022, former Scoot CEO Campbell Wilson said that the airline served almost 130,000 passengers between Singapore and Gold Coast in 2019.
The route is currently running four times a week, serving thousands of customers, according to Gold Coast news outlet MyGC.
I am surprised that I was a party to putting that deal together. If there was something I could do, I would have done it, he said.