Vice President Commercial SilkAir, Alvin Seah in a press release. mentions an additional flight is aimed at increasing customer convenience to return home in time to celebrate the lunar new year or a long vacation, which is also in conjunction with Valentine’s Day.  ”We observed that there is a significant increase in demand for air travel during New Year celebrations which will fall on 14 and 15 February this year,” said Alvin.  This additional flight will be conducted before and after the Lunar new year. Since 11 to February 20, 2010, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines will provide additional flights to five destinations, namely Kuching, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Chongqing, and Phuket.  SilkAir will provide four additional flights for the route Singapore – Kuching on 11, 13, 15 and 20 February. Passengers can also enjoy four additional flights to Penang at 12,13,15, and 16 February.

Meanwhile, for the flight to Kuala Lumpur and Phuket will be added each into two flights, ie to route to Kuala Lumpur on 12 and February 16, while to Phuket on 13 and 16 February. The airline was selected as Best Regional Airline (Southeast Asia) in the event in 2009 Skytrax World Airline Awards are also an additional flight on February 15 for the purpose of Chongqing.