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to Kathmandu, Lahore and Karachi were
suspended early in May 2002 and have not
been resumed due to the prevailing
uncertain situation.
In the final weeks of the financial year, the
outbreak of war in Iraq and the appearance
of SARS as a major health concern led
SIA to announce a significant reduction in
capacity. In terms of available seat kilometers,
these cuts amounted to 30 per cent in the
first quarter of the new financial year (April
to June 2003).
As at March 31, 2002, SIA’s passenger
network covered 60 cities in 33 countries.
Two frequencies were added to Brisbane,
increasing the number of weekly services
to Australia to 70. Over the traditionally
busy December period, supplementary flights
to Sydney, Melbourne and Christchurch
were also mounted.
As part of a restructuring of services to
South Africa, operations to Durban were
terminated in January 2003, when
B777-200ER aircraft gradually replaced
B747-400s, allowing capacity to better
match demand. The outcome of this
restructuring was a daily non-stop service
to Johannesburg (from five times weekly)
and three services a week to Cape Town
(up from two).
Meanwhile, SIA’s services to the Middle East
were further enhanced in May 2002, with
the addition of three weekly B777 services
to Dubai, taking the total to ten. But services
13SIA Annual Report 02/03