Singapore Air flights cancelled

[chillyinCanada]

Singapore Airlines temporarily halts some flights to Indonesian cities

 

[ChrisM]

Singapore - manado safe. For now.

 

[Indah]

Thanks a lot.

 

[outofofficebrb]

Thanks for the heads up. It feels a lot like airplane lottery the last few months...."Will it be my flight?" before clicking.

 

[scrane]

It looks like they're just trying to consolidate flights for efficiency due to low occupancy.

 

[elgoog]

Yep, definitely looks like consolidation.
In my case, I was supposed to fly SFO > Singapore > Mumbai this week - the SFO > Singapore leg got moved to a completely different flight which landed after the connection to Mumbai took off and they didn't seem super interested in getting me confirmed tickets for the next leg. The options given to me were stand-bys on flights 12hr later or the same connection on the next day but still not confirmed. The ticket agent seemed almost relieved when I asked for a cancellation which they processed with all fees waived.
They're definitely hoping for cancellations and running fewer flights rather than angry overbooked passengers stranded at airports around there.

 

[Centrals]

Officially, Indonesia is still FREE from this coronavirus!
Is SQ overly cautious and jump the gun or they know something that the Indonesian Gov won't admit?

 

[outofofficebrb]

Officially, Indonesia is still FREE from this coronavirus!
Is SQ overly cautious and jump the gun or they know something that the Indonesian Gov won't admit?

I think it's likely a case of them having many seats that are going empty and not many bookings are being made so it's a bad business decision to continue with status quo. Optimization to minimize their operating/overhead costs makes sense.

 

[Pearlman]

Officially, Indonesia is still FREE from this coronavirus!
Is SQ overly cautious and jump the gun or they know something that the Indonesian Gov won't admit?

There is a Chinese style meat market in Indonesia where anything goes ... its been doing the social media rounds of late - in fact it was being passed off as a Wuhan meat market. I wont rule out another epicenter for an outbreak arising out of there.

Some food for thought - New Research: Bats Harbor Hundreds Of Coronaviruses, And Spillovers Aren't Rare

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[boletus1973]

Officially, Indonesia is still FREE from this coronavirus!

ahahah….. sorry but they simply don't do the virus screening…