Previously Singapore Airlines was operating an Airbus A350 and from last week it deployed the 337-seat Boeing B787-10 Dreamliner which increases seat capacity by 11% in addition to extra cargo space.

SIA General Manager Sri Lanka Zac Liew said that the airline will increase frequency from the current 4 times a week to daily from October given the rebound in air travel between Colombo and Singapore. “

We need more capacity hence the decision to go daily,” he said at a Sri Lanka media engagement last week along with Singapore Tourism Board Regional Director for India, Middle East and South Asia G.B. Srithar and SIA Sales and Marketing Manager Radhini Fernando Seneviratne.

The daily frequency would mean SIA capacity reverting to almost pre-COVID level. It used to operate 9 flights per week. SIA expressed the hope that it could further expand capacity as well in tandem with demand.