The Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group has expanded its quarantine-free Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) network to 17 cities, with additional points expected to be announced in the coming weeks.

This comes as Singapore widened its VTL arrangements to include Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. These are on top of the existing VTL arrangements with Brunei and Germany, which began in September 2021.

Singapore Airlines will operate VTL services from Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, London, Milan, Paris, and Rome starting 19 October 2021. SIA’s VTL services from Seoul will begin on 16 November 2021. Today, SIA operates VTL services from Bandar Seri Begawan, Frankfurt, and Munich.

Scoot, SIA’s sister airline, will operate VTL flights from Berlin from 20 October 2021.

Multi-city itineraries within VTL countries are allowed if customers meet the 14-day travel history requirement, which includes transit countries. For example, a traveller may fly from Singapore to Paris, and then Paris to Amsterdam, and still be eligible for the VTL flight from Amsterdam to Singapore. However, a customer who flies from Singapore to Los Angeles via Tokyo will not be eligible for SIA’s non-stop VTL flight from Los Angeles if the stay in Los Angeles is less than 14 days.

Customers travelling on the VTL flights can also enjoy fuss-free transfers via Singapore Changi Airport to 59 destinations within the SIA Group network.

SIA’s VTL flight schedule for the U.S. is included in the below chart.

SQ23 will operate as the daily designated VTL flight from New York to Singapore. Please note the flight time changes that will take effect from 31 October 2021 in the table below.

New York (JFK) – Singapore
19 October 2021 – 30 October 2021
SQ23	New York (JFK) – Singapore	Daily	2230hrs – 0520hrs (+2)	Airbus A350-900ULR
31 October 2021 – 26 March 2022
SQ23	New York (JFK) – Singapore	Daily	2140hrs – 0520hrs (+2)	Airbus A350-900ULR

SQ37 will operate as the daily designated VTL flight from Los Angeles to Singapore. Please note the flight time changes that will take effect from 31 October 2021 in the table below.

Los Angeles – Singapore
19 October 2021 – 30 October 2021
SQ37	Los Angeles – Singapore	Daily	2320hrs – 0730hrs (+2)	Airbus A350-900
31 October 2021 – 26 March 2022
SQ37	Los Angeles – Singapore	Daily	2225hrs – 0815hrs (+2)	Airbus A350-900

SQ33 will operate as the daily designated VTL flight from San Francisco to Singapore.  Please note the flight time changes that will take effect from 31 October 2021 in the table below.

San Francisco – Singapore
19 October 2021 – 30 October 2021
SQ33	San Francisco – Singapore	Daily	2205hrs – 0545hrs (+2)	Airbus A350-900
31 October 2021 – 26 March 2022
SQ33	San Francisco – Singapore	Daily	2050hrs – 0625hrs (+2)	Airbus A350-900

All customers must ensure that they are eligible for Singapore’s VTL arrangements before their flights.

“Singapore’s expansion of the VTL arrangements to 11 countries is great news for our customers, who can now reunite with their loved ones more easily or finally go on that overseas holiday,” said Mr Lee Lik Hsin, Executive Vice President Commercial, Singapore Airlines.

“The SIA Group supports all measures to reopen Singapore to quarantine-free international travel. This will enable the safe and gradual recovery of Changi Airport as a major air hub, backed by rising vaccination rates and confidence in the robust health and safety measures across the end-to-end customer journey.”

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