First flight carrying travellers from Germany vaccinated against Covid-19 to land in S'pore on Sept 8

A pilot travel scheme to allow travellers vaccinated against Covid-19 to enter Singapore without quarantine will take off as planned on Wednesday. The first flight under the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL), SQ325, is expected to depart Frankfurt in Germany at 10pm local time on Tuesday (4am on Wednesday, Singapore time), and land at Changi Airport at 4.25pm on Wednesday. Vaccinated travellers from these two countries will go through up to four Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction tests in lieu of quarantine, and have to adhere to other conditions such as taking designated VTL flights to Singapore. Singapore unilaterally opened the VTL to travellers from Brunei and Germany as a start. Brunei remains closed to leisure travel, but as Germany has been open to travellers from the Republic since October last year, it means Singapore residents can use the VTL scheme to travel without quarantine in either country. Singapore Airlines (SIA), which will operate three VTL flights weekly from Frankfurt and two VTL flights weekly from Munich, said that it has seen an increase in bookings. It declined to give further details, which it said were commercially sensitive.<br/>