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SilkAir terminated its service to Chittagong (Bangladesh)
SilkAir ceased services to Vientiane and Luang Prabang in March 2019 and transferred these routes to Scoot, which began operations to these destinations in April 2019. In FY2019/20, SilkAir transferred nine more routes to Scoot, namely Changsha, Chiang Mai, Coimbatore, Fuzhou, Kunming, Kota Kinabalu, Trivandrum, Visakhapatnam and Wuhan. ... SilkAir ceased services to Hiroshima and Kolkata in March 2020.
SilkAir added three new destinations – Shenzhen (China), Surabaya (Indonesia), and Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia), and terminated its services to Padang, Hyderabad and Fuzhou
the airline suspended its twice-weekly services to Macau in December 2004 and Krabi in February 2005
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)the airline suspended flights to Kaohsiung, Taiwan in February 2009 due to weak demand
SilkAir is now the only airline from Southeast Asia serving Da Nang.