A Singapore-Germany air corridor for vaccinated travellers comes as Singapore climbs past a vaccination rate of 80 per cent and starts reopening its borders | ChrisBarrett_
Like the vast majority of people living in Singapore, Kirsten Moench and her husband Ingo haven’t left the south-east Asian city-state since COVID-19 brought international travel to its knees in March last year.− the first such corridor between Asia and Europe since the pandemic began − has suddenly changed the landscape for them.
“I’m extremely excited about it ... I think it’s a great thing,” said Moench, the head of external communications at the German European School Singapore. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in his annual National Day Rally speech last week that the island nation was reopening cautiously, “not in one big bang like some countries”.The test case with Germany, which already allows arrivals from Singapore to skip quarantine, begins on Tuesday with the first of seven flights a week out of Frankfurt and Munich on which only fully vaccinated passengers can book seats.
Singapore’s internal relaxing of restrictions over the past three weeks, including the reopening of restaurants and gyms to fully vaccinated people, has been followed by an increase to more than 200 new locally acquired infections a day.
Amid the wrangling, there is frustration from airlines eager to know what international travel will look like coming out of the pandemic and how it will work, from testing and vaccine requirements to home quarantine. “The frustration is there is now talk from governments about effectively starting to reopen in three months from now and airlines really have no idea what that could mean in practice,” Abrams said.
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