Singapore Airlines has been financially devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. Working with the Singapore Tourism Board, it plans to, by the end of October, launch a series of flights that will take off from Changi Airport, stay airborne for about three hours, and then return home.
It's a government subsidy program. The Singaporean national government will give tourism credits to passengers. The Straits Times reports:
Mr Stefan Wood, director at aircraft charter firm Singapore Air Charter, told ST that he had approached SIA about the possibility of setting up a joint venture to provide such flights to nowhere using the Airbus A-350 planes from SIA. [...]
"We will make an announcement at the appropriate time if we go ahead with these plans."
Several airlines worldwide, including EVA Air in Taiwan, have piloted flights to nowhere in an attempt to cope with the drastic fall in demand for air travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.
-via Marginal Revolution | Photo: Steve Lynes
Dip dibbidip dip dibbidip dip dibbidip dip we're on a plane to nowhere, come on inside...
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Covid19 is really altering the brain....
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