Malaysian, Thai and Vietnam carriers reduce and cancel flights in April
Regional airlines in Southeast Asia cut frequencies and routes in April as they suffer from high oil prices and a shortage in supply.
The largest cuts are affecting domestic routes in Vietnam.
– National carrier Vietnam Airlines cancelled four domestic routes from Haiphong while pushing back to July the launching of a new route between Ho Chi Minh City and Phuket.
– Vietnam largest carrier Vietjet reduced frequencies on 24 routes. Most affected airports are Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City airports with respectively 9 and 10 reductions in air frequencies. The carrier also cut flights for 4 routes out of Haiphong and 2 routes out of Danang. This represents a quarter of all its frequencies.
– Bamboo Airways cut frequencies to 5 routes -3 from Hanoi and 2 from Ho Chi Minh City, representing 30% less capacity.
– In Malaysia, Batik Air makes deep cuts into its network. The airline is reducing by over 35% capacities on domestic routes, eliminating or even cancelling flights from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) to 9 domestic cities.
The carrier is also downsizing its presence at Subang airport, Kuala Lumpur second air gateway by stopping flights to Johor Bahru, Kota Kinabalu, Kota Baru, Singapore and Jakarta. The airline is also reducing frequencies from KLIA to Bangkok Don Mueang, Seoul and Singapore as well as from Penang to Jakarta and Medan. In total, 29 routes are affected in Batik Air network.
– In Thailand, Thai AirAsia reduced frequencies to 13 destinations, mostly in South Asia (6 cities in both India and Nepal) but also towards China (5 destinations), to Phnom Penh and Seoul. The carrier canceled flights from Phuket to two routes while Thai AirAsia X stops its daily service from Don Mueang to Shanghai-Pudong.
– Thai Lion Air cancelled its daily flight from Bangkok Don Mueang to Seoul.
Thai Airways International so far has excluded any reduction in frequencies, according to newspaper The Nation. However, if the situation would drag down beyond April, the airline would then start cutting flights. In general, national carriers such as Garuda Indonesia, Malaysia Airlines or Singapore Airlines did not announce any reduction in their schedule – beside cuts to Middle-East destinations.
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