Singapore - Four more airlines will start flying from Changi Airport's new "Terminal 3" on Wednesday, including Qatar Airways, China Eastern Airlines, Jet Airways and United Airlines, Singapore's Civil Aviation Authority said. Customer service officers will be deployed at all three terminals to provide assistance, the authority said on Tuesday.
Singapore Airlines has been the sole carrier using the terminal since operations began on January 9.
China Eastern Airline's scheduled flight will be the first to arrive and depart, with MU 545 from Shanghai arriving late Tuesday, the authority said in a statement. The same aircraft will depart for Shanghai at 0055 hours on March 26.
Since February 2008, the four airlines "have undergone integrated airport systems trials at Terminal 3 involving passenger check-in, baggage handling, staff familiarization and commercial trial flights to test the actual passenger departure and arrival processes," the authority said.
The four airlines operate 148 weekly flights from Singapore to Shanghai, Kunming, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Doha, Jakarta, Atlanta, Chicago, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Washington DC, bringing the total to more than 900 weekly flights from the new terminal.
