Xiamen Airlines Launches Zhengzhou - Xiamen - Singapore Flights

Changi Airport Group (CAG) and the Henan Civil Aviation Development and Construction Committee (HCADCC) marked a significant milestone in their cooperation on Sunday as the inaugural flight connecting Zhengzhou to Singapore arrived at Changi Airport Terminal 1.

The inaugural flight from Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province, follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding by CAG and HCADCC in November 2010 to develop air connectivity between Singapore and cities in Henan.

Xiamen Airlines will operate the daily Zhengzhou-Xiamen-Singapore flight with a 169-seater Boeing 737-800 aircraft in a two-class configuration.

Xiamen Airlines already has two daily services to Singapore – from Tianjin (via Xiamen) and Hangzhou (via Fuzhou). The addition of Zhengzhou to Changi’s network brings to six the number of new city links to China established since January 2010, following Guilin, Shantou, Hefei, Qingdao and Nanning.

Passenger traffic between Singapore and China has shown promising signs of growth. In 2010, some 3.38 million passengers travelled between the two countries, an increase of 16% over 2009. In particular, traffic between Singapore and secondary cities in China grew 22% over the same period.

With the addition of Xiamen Airlines’ flights to Zhengzhou, some 430 weekly scheduled flights will connect Changi Airport to 26 Chinese cities, reinforcing Singapore’s position as the most connected Southeast Asian city to China.

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