Miss flying? Singapore is planning to start flights that go nowhere

Resources explained to The Straits Times that the airways is performing to start the ‘flight to nowhere’ selection for domestic travellers by Oct-close.

The flight period is envisioned to be a few hours.

Resources explained to Straits Times that SIA may possibly examine a partnership with the Singapore Tourism Board to permit interested travellers to partly spend for such flights with tourism credits that will be provided out by the government.

Stefan Wood, director at aircraft constitution firm Singapore Air Charter, explained to ST that he experienced approached SIA about the likelihood of location up a joint undertaking to provide such flights to nowhere using the Airbus A-350 planes from SIA.

A spokesman explained to Straits Times, “SIA is taking into consideration a number of initiatives that would permit us to continue on partaking equally our shoppers and users of the general public.”

“We will make an announcement at the acceptable time if we go ahead with these ideas.”

Like other airways, SIA has been terribly battered by the fallout from Covid-19. The SIA Team, which also incorporates regional arm SilkAir and finances provider Scoot, introduced on September ten that it will minimize all around four,three hundred positions.

SIA has operated a flight to nowhere right before, for a charity initiative in 2015 when it ferried a lot more than three hundred beneficiaries of the Neighborhood Chest, such as small children with specific demands and the disadvantaged aged.