The new added travel lanes will further broaden Changi's network and help reclaim and rebuild Singapore's status as an international aviation hub with global connectivity.
Travellers from Thailand, Cambodia, Fiji, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Turkey will be able to enter Singapore quarantine-free from December 14 next month, with the launch of six new vaccinated travel lanes.
From December 16, travellers from Cambodia, Fiji, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Turkey may enter Singapore under the VTL can start to apply for travel passes from December 9, 10am onwards.
With the launch of the six new VTLs, the daily quota of travellers allowed to enter Singapore under the VTL scheme will also be raised from 10,000 to 15,000. This is a further calibrated expansion of the VTL scheme to reconnect Singapore with the world while managing the public health risk.
According to the Ministry of Health's Covid-19 risk classification, countries like Cambodia, Fiji, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Turkey are all in Category 2, and have similar or lower Covid-19 infection rates than Singapore and the other VTL countries, CAAS said. Thailand will be reclassified as Category 2 from December 1.
Fully vaccinated travellers from Singapore have been able to travel to Thailand without quarantine since Nov 1 and to Cambodia since Nov 15.
Turkey has also already opened its borders to quarantine-free vaccinated travel from Singapore. The extension of the VTL scheme to the country will enable Singapore to connect with another major aviation hub, CAAS added.
Meanwhile, Fiji will be reopening its borders to vaccinated travellers from Singapore and 39 other countries from Dec 1.
From next Monday (Nov 29), air VTLs with Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia, India, Sweden and Finland will also begin. Three more VTLs, with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, will start on Dec 6, with applications to start on Nov 29.
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