KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian Joseph Soosai and his sister were looking forward to attending their niece's wedding in Singapore on Feb 5 but the high airfares on a quarantine-free travel scheme and the costs associated with numerous Covid-19 tests put paid to their plans.
between Malaysia and Singapore during the Chinese New Year festive season plus the 50 per cent reduction in capacity quota in view of rising Covid-19 cases globally due to the more transmissible but less severe Omicron variant of the coronavirus have driven up the price of air tickets. In contrast, she only paid RM400 to fly to Singapore on AirAsia to spend two weeks during the Christmas period with her daughters.
A check by ST showed that VTL flights for some airlines like SIA and Malaysian low-cost carrier AirAsia have sold out for weeks. "With the high demand and constrained supply, lower airfares can be quickly exhausted," Mr Calvin Chan, chief commercial officer for Scoot, Singapore Airlines' budget arm, said in response to ST queries.
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