Singapore Airlines (SIA) will fly daily to Abu Dhabi starting March 15, 2009, increasing the airline's frequency to Abu Dhabi Airport by 133 percent from Asian city-state of Singapore. The carrier's existing three-times a week service between Singapore and Abu Dhabi will go daily as part of plans that will also see Singapore Airlines extend its network, through Abu Dhabi, by offering flights to Kuwait City four-times a week - on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. While the aviation business in other regions of the world are experiencing slowing growth, the Middle East region, and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in particular, continues to outperform global trends as its aviation infrastructure provides the platform for the sustained and robust growth. This is reflected in Abu Dhabi International Airport ‘s consistent 30 percentile average growth of passenger traffic over the last two years. Mohammed Al Bulooki, vice president of airline marketing and aeronautical revenue said: “We are pleased to welcome the announcement that one of the world's foremost airlines has chosen to increase its services for the growing number of business and leisure passengers traveling between two important economic and capital cities.” “Clearly, the increased frequencies demonstrate the confidence airlines have in Abu Dhabi ‘s growing status as a natural connecting point between East and West, as well being a key regional hub for international airlines. ADAC continues to make every effort to increase the number of airlines and frequencies operated from the airport in order to better serve all our passengers and partners,” he added. Lim Meow Seng, general manager for Gulf of SIA, said: “Singapore Airlines is happy to be able to increase our frequency on the Abu Dhabi-Singapore route to daily, while also adding Kuwait to our destination network.” __
