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Cathay Pacific discontinues waitlist for award flights
You can no longer waitlist for an award flight from 22 Oct 2021 when you book with Asia Miles Cathay Pacific has most recently added the ability to mix miles and cash in booking Cathay Pacific tickets earlier this year, and along with it, made a small but critical change to the rewards programme. Asia Miles eliminates award waitlisting From 22 Oct 2021, you can no...
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Singapore Airlines restarting Frankfurt-New York and Hong Kong-San Francisco flights
Singapore Airlines will resume two more fifth freedom flights in November: Frankfurt to New York and Hong Kong to San Francisco Singapore Airlines announced that it will reinstate two fifth freedom services to USA in November 2021, using the four-class Boeing 777-300ERs. The two services will resume SIA’s pre-pandemic connection between Frankfurt and New York as well as Hong Kong and San Francisco. Both...
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Earn 4.4mpd with your UOB PRVI Miles Mastercard for online & mobile contactless spend
Get up to 4.4 mpd on mobile contactless and online transactions from now and 31 Dec 2021.
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REVIEW: Shangri-La Singapore, Valley Wing Deluxe Room
Top-notch offering, luxurious experience (with some misses), but time for a refresh. The holy grail of staycations in the midst of pandemic, the Valley Wing of Shangri-La Singapore is probably the most hyped-about staycation experience after Covid-19 pretty much closed off cross border travels for Singaporeans. All day champagne, decadent breakfast spread, luxurious room and lobby, excellent service — this is effectively the all-business...
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Singapore to commence quarantine-free travel lanes from Germany and Brunei from 8 September
Singapore residents can now visit Germany and back without any form of isolation or quarantine requirements. The Singapore government yesterday (19 Aug 2021) announced that it will waive quarantine requirements for vaccinated travellers from Brunei and Germany from 8 Sep 2021, subject to several conditions, including frequent testing. The arrangement, called Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL), will allow a set number of fully vaccinated visitors...
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Singapore to ease SHN requirements for vaccinated travellers from eight countries
Singapore will allow some visitors and returning Singaporeans and residents to serve Stay-Home Notice (SHN) at their place of residence starting from 20 August Singapore will soon allow fully vaccinated travellers from eight countries to serve their 7 or 14-day SHN at home, starting 11.59pm on 20 Aug 2021 (i.e 21 Aug 2021). The countries are: Australia 🇦🇺 Austria 🇦🇹 Canada 🇨🇦 Germany 🇩🇪...
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Best National Day Offers from Klook and Trip.com: Bonus dining credits, 1-for-1s, and more
Klook and Trip.com have lined up their best offers for the National Day weekend sale. Here’s our top picks on what you should grab. Klook and Trip.com have both kicked off their National Day flash sales, both running from 5 to 9 Aug 2021. Together they have put up more than a dozen hotels on offer, so here’s some of the top picks. Klook...
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Fifth freedom flights and Singapore Airlines: What next?
In recent months, Singapore Airlines and its low-cost subsidiary Scoot made news with some of its more innovative fifth freedom service within Europe. Singapore Airlines first announced the resumption of its Rome service, but via Copenhagen as a tag-on service. Shortly after, Scoot announced that its original two European destination – Athens in Greece and Berlin in Germany – will be combined into a...
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Singapore looking to lift quarantine requirements from September 2021 for vaccinated travellers
From September, travel-starved Singapore residents may be able to venture out to some countries and return to Singapore sans quarantine In parliament today (26 Jul 2021), Multi-ministry Task Force (MTF) co-chair Lawrence Wong, who’s the finance minister of Singapore, said that the government is planning to relook its border control measures for selected countries. It intends to set up travel corridors with certain countries...
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Scoot resuming Berlin flights from 10 Aug
Service will operate via Athens, allowing Scoot to tap on intra-Europe demand as EU opens up Scoot’s new fifth freedom service between Athens and Berlin will see it tap into the intra-Europe travel market from August 2021. The service is an extension of Scoot’s current thrice weekly Singapore-Athens service, with the tag-on of the Athens-Berlin leg. The service remains three times weekly, but there...
