SIA to resume daily S'pore-US non-stop flights from Jan 18

Singapore Airlines will be resuming daily non-stop flights between Singapore and Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York's JFK International from Jan 18. Joey Seow, SIA's regional vice-president for the Americas, noted Thursday that there are "promising signs for recovery in international air travel, particularly with the start of the vaccine inoculation programme". He said PM Lee Hsien Loong's announcement of further easing of travel measures and the World Economic Forum switching next year to Singapore from Davos, Switzerland, signalled that "Singapore is open for business". "The Government has taken on the objective of opening up Singapore," he said. He added that Americans are allowed to transit in Singapore, which was initially not the case. This means there are more opportunities to go on a flight. "Step by step, there are all these signs, there's a lot more positivity," he said. He also cited the discussions Singapore's Government is having with Vietnam on "green lane" travel bubble arrangements. "As more and more of these travel bubbles and green lanes are being negotiated, business opportunities will come about. The country begins to slowly but safely open up and we see encouraging signs, which are cause for further optimism."<br/>