Spit Air Singapore (PW 1005)

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01.09.1999 Spit Air Singapore starts its first flight from Singapore Changi Airport today on routes to Indonesia and Malaysia. The new airline operates a single LET L-420 on daily routes to Penang, Langkawi, Hat Yai, Minangkabau, Kuching and Polonia.

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Feb 2000: Spit Air founded the ASIA DRAGON ALLIANCE. This organisation is open to all partners, which fit from their network hubs into the Asia Dragon Alliance network and which are interested to support partners with new hubs for their services as well as looking for new hubs for their own. Other areas of cooperations are the temporary or longterm exchange of aircraft and a permanent growth of the alliance value due to the growth of its members.

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Mar 2000: The new Asia Dragon Alliance welcomes its new foundation members Piedmont, Spit Air, Asia aerolineas indo-argentina, Tokyo Galaxy Airlines, South Chinise Airlines, Shakeeb Airways and Shang Hai Internetional. With the new members, the alliance is operating a network from the partner hubs at Allama Iqbal, Beijing, Hongkong, Dehli, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo. The 7 foundation member's value of Asia Dragon is about 220 Mill., making Asia Dragon currently Asia's No. 1 alliance. Further partners are invited for application.

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4. Mar 2000: Spit Air starts operation from the Asia Dragon hub at Hongkong in cooperation with South Chinise Airlines. Destinations are Macau, China and Taiwan. With the new network at Hongkong, Spit Air increased its daily operating profit to above 1 Mill. per day after the first half year of operations.

Further routes are established from the Asia Dragon hubs at Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo.

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Apr 2000: Spit Air established a second hub aside from its Singapore Base at the city of Shenzhen in China. The new hub is exclusively serving China and Taiwan destinations, while the nearby Asia Dragon hub at Hongkong serves international routings to South East Asia at the moment.