Singapore Airlines details low-cost offshoot.
Singapore Airlines has just released information on its new “low-frills” carrier, which it says will offer “great value airfares up to 40% less than legacy carriers”.
As previously flagged, the separately managed airline will be named Scoot, and will operate from Changi Airport Terminal 2 in Singapore.
Flights are planned to commence from mid-2012 with a fleet of four B777-200 aircraft purchased from Singapore Airlines, on medium to long haul routes to and from Singapore including to Australasia and China in the first year. The planes will have two classes, while specific seats, cabin features and offerings “are currently being evaluated”.
Some of the destinations will be completely new, while others will be new to no-frills airline operations, “with specific cities to be announced over the coming months as negotiations with airports and tourism bodies progress,” the carrier said.
An AOC is expected to be awarded around the end of the first quarter of 2012, while engineering retrofit and certification of aircraft is scheduled for April-June.
“The team building Scoot is passionate about this new airline, what it stands for and how it can change the way people travel long distance,” said Scoot ceo Campbell Wilson.
He said that passengers would be “empowered to customise their travel to suit their personal requirements, partaking of only those elements they want and not subsidising the choices of others. Meals, preferred seats and baggage, amongst many other items, will all be available for selection”.
An initial ‘brand-building’ website is now online at www.flyscoot.com and there’s also a new facebook page at www.facebook.com/flyscoot.
More information in tomorrow’s Travel Daily.