New Delhi: Singapore on Friday said it has expanded vaccinated travel lanes for flights originating from all Indian cities.
Under the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL), eligible passengers are allowed to enter Singapore without quarantine. Earlier this service launched on November 29, 2021 was applicable only for flights to Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai.
Now, more travelers from India, who have been fully vaccinated, can use VTL for quarantine-free travel, the Singapore Tourism Board said in a statement.
Traveling from India to Singapore has been made easy for fully vaccinated travelers with certain pre-requisites prior to departure, a valid visa, a Vaccination Travel Pass (VTP), stay in India for seven consecutive days or a VTL country And that includes a mandatory RT-PCR test. ,
“The expansion of VTL from all Indian cities to Singapore provides the much needed impetus to all types of travelers to travel between countries, be it for leisure, business or cruise. This will help Singapore to reopen our borders. This is part of a calibrated and progressive approach of the company,” GB Srither, STB Regional Director, IMESA (India, Middle East and South Asia) said in a release.
Separately, the Singapore Airlines (SIA) group on Friday announced that it will convert all its flights from India to Singapore into vaccination travel lane services from March 16.
Currently, it operates flights from eight points in India to Singapore.
The company said in a separate release, while the existing daily VTL flights will continue to operate from Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai, all other SIA Indian flights that will reach Singapore from March 16 will progressively operate as VTL services.
These are flights from Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kochi and Kolkata.
SIA Group said its low-cost subsidiary Scooters will convert its non-VTL services from Amritsar, Coimbatore, Trivandrum, Tiruchirappalli and Visakhapatnam to VTL.
“Singapore’s decision to expand its VTL arrangement to cover all points across India will be a welcome development for all our customers. Yen Chen, General Manager, SY Singapore Airlines, said, “We see strong demand across India from customers who want the convenience of Singapore and enjoy their quarantine-free travel.
The expansion of SIA Group’s VTL network is also fully timed with the relaunch of the airline’s A380 services to Mumbai and Delhi in the coming months from March 14, he added.
Chen said, “We are thrilled to be able to bring our iconic Super Jumbo back to India. We hope this will inspire even more confidence in the expansion of Singapore’s VTL arrangement as well as for international travel from India .
Passengers wishing to travel on VTL services must apply for VTP prior to their visa applications. VTP applications must be made between 3 and 60 calendar days from the due date of entry into Singapore.
Upon arrival in Singapore, passengers can enjoy a quarantine-free stay after taking a supervised ART at an accelerated testing center within 24 hours of arrival and testing negative.
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