Singapore Airlines is suspending half of its daily flights to Tokyo’s Haneda airport as Japan’s nuclear crisis hit demand. Two of its four flights between Singapore Changi airport and Haneda will be suspended from Sunday.
Four daily flights between Singapore and Tokyo’s Narita airport will be maintained. A spokesman said the suspension of the Haneda flights was due to a slump in customers going to Japan after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the country’s northeast.
“We are seeing weakening demand in and out of Tokyo due to the situation in Japan,” he said. The twin disasters triggered a crisis at the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant about 155 miles from Tokyo.