Singapore: "flights to nowhere" to save the airline industry

A Silk Air Boeing 737 MAX 8 on the tarmac at Changi Airport in Singapore, March 12, 2018. REUTERS / Edgar Su

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In Singapore, a fairly original solution is emerging to help airlines survive the year 2020: offering flights that would take off and land in Singapore.

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With our correspondent in Kuala Lumpur,

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The expression chosen may be questioning but it is a real avenue for reflection in Singapore to save this very difficult end of the year 2020.

Singapore Airlines, the airline of this small Southeast Asian country, could thus offer flights that would take off from Changi airport and land three hours later on the same tarmac as early as next month, announces the national press.

The initiative is not new.

A Taiwanese company has already offered “flights to nowhere” this year, but Singapore is considering going further and proposing offers in partnership with hotels to carry out

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that can be translated as “ vacation at home ”.

A study carried out on more than 300 Singaporeans gives the airline confidence.

Three-quarters say they are prepared to pay for one of these “flights to nowhere” and almost half are prepared to pay 360 euros for a business class seat.

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