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  • Scoot to Lake Toba (Silangit International Airport)?

    Scoot, Singapore`s airways, plans to open Singapore-Silangit route,
    Source: https://en.antaranews.com/news/11353...elop-lake-toba

    Is Scoot's Singapore - Silangit route going to materialise soon? Would be exciting to see LCC develop new leisure routes. This route is especially interesting since Scoot does not already operate into neighbouring Medan KNO, unlike competitor 3K which flies daily to KNO.

    GA has charter flights from SIN-DTB in late November till mid-December operated by CRJ1000 and the reported load factor is quite encouraging (maybe around 70% or more).

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    Scoot plans to open 2 new destinations in Indonesia in 2018: 1 in Sumatra and 1 in Kalimantan.

    https://youtu.be/cBSIqLZ_1_Y 1:50
    Source: Interview of Sriwijaya TV with GM of JSE Scoot Indonesia on the occasion of the launching of Scoot Service to Palembang

    Wonder whether it will be Silangit in Sumatra?

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    • #3
      Indonesia Angkasa Pura II's Silangit Airport & Sumatra's tourism

      An article on the potential of Silangit.

      Silangit Airport in North Sumatra is poised to grow rapidly under an Indonesian government initiative to promote tourism at Lake Toba. Silangit is located less than 10km from the southern shore of Lake Toba, the world’s largest volcanic lake and one of Indonesia’s biggest tourist attractions. A second runway extension and terminal expansion project is planned and is expected to be completed by 2020.
      Silangit Airport now has international designations, but upgrades are needed to support regular international flights and a potential international hub from Indonesia AirAsia or Lion Air.

      Source: https://centreforaviation.com/analys...tourism-417917
      Silangit-Singapore route made possible with subsidies

      Silangit has so far only handled 1,300 international passengers. All these passengers arrived on the 10 charter flights operated to and from Singapore by Garuda in late 2017. The first of these flights landed in Silangit on 28-Oct-2017.

      The Singapore-Silangit flights were sold by travel agents in Singapore as part of tour packages, which were subsidised by the Indonesian government. Garuda is willing to operate more charter flights between Silangit and Singapore but only with government support, as it does not believe the service can be profitable at this point without subsidies.

      The cost of operating flights from Silangit to Singapore is relatively high, due to payload limitations from Silangit and high fees at Singapore. Garuda has 96 seats on its CRJ1000s but was only able to sell 60 to 70 seats on the Silangit-Singapore sector because of aircraft limitations.

      Almost all of the available seats (after taking into account the payload restrictions) were successfully sold, but at very low fares. Without the subsidies, the flights would not have been profitable.

      The planned runway extension should make the Silangit-Singapore route more viable. Garuda also believes further service improvements at the airport are needed before scheduled international services can be considered.
      From the article, I infer that the choice of aircraft to operate Singapore-Silangit route is important to maintain the route profitability as well. Garuda perhaps has selected the wrong aircraft for the charter. But I wonder why a longer Jakarta-Silangit can be operated by A320 by many carriers without any payload restriction but the shorter Singapore-Silangit operated by CRJ1000s is payload restricted.

      I believe a Scoot A319/A320 service may be better suited to the route as the cost base is low and Scoot can stimulate demand for the route with its tacky marketing.

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      • #4
        the A320 or A319 should be ok to operate this flight. Air Asia is going to start this service using its A320.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by flyguy View Post
          the A320 or A319 should be ok to operate this flight. Air Asia is going to start this service using its A320.
          I also think A320 or A319 should be okay to operate SIN-DTB flight.

          AirAsia will be flying KUL-DTB vv from 28 Oct 2018 4 times weekly


          And interestingly enough Malindo will be the first airline to start scheduled international flight from Silangit. OD will operate 4x weekly SZB-DTB vv from 17 Aug 2018 (is it intentionally timed to coincide with Indonesia Independence Day?)

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