The air route between Macau and Singapore will resume operation on July 2 eight months after it was canceled,airline sources said Wednesday.

Silk Air,subsidiary of the Singapore Airlines,plans to provide two return flights on the route every week,on Tuesday and Friday,using an A319 airliner.

Industry viewers believe the move will facilitate Macau residents and tour groups from China's inland traveling to Singapore,and tourists from countries such as Singapore and Indonesia to Macau.

Singapore Airlines stopped flights on the route at the end of last October due to fragile demand in global air traffic market and in response to its flight-reshuffling scheme.

Silk Air,set up in 1975, has opened 23 air routes with five A320 and four 319 airplanes.

( eastday.com June 19, 2002)