Planning a quarantine-free arrival in Singapore from the latest list of VTL-approved countries? You'll need to book a designated flight on one of over 30 different airlines.
Update: 24th March 2022
Singapore will scrap its Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) scheme for arrivals from 1st April 2022, allowing fully vaccinated travellers to arrive on any flight operated by any airline from any country, without the need to quarantine on arrival.
You will still need to book designated VTL flights listed on this page if you are arriving before 11.59pm on 31st March 2022, but after that you can disregard the requirement, which is great news for more flexible travel.
Singapore has been progressively expanding its quarantine-free Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) scheme, originally started in September 2021 as a pilot programme from Germany, with a host of additional countries joining the eligible list since then.
It is now possible to travel from a range of countries and forgo any arrival quarantine or SHN period in Singapore itself, provided you are fully vaccinated and clear a pre-departure and on-arrival COVID-19 test.
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Most VTL countries are accepting fully vaccinated Singapore residents with no quarantine, so this is a true selection of two-way travel opportunities to and from many countries.
Singapore has now opened VTLs with 30 countries, with two more upcoming arrangements, providing a wide range of options for quarantine-free travel including both regional and long-haul options.
Singapore Vaccinated Travel Lanes
2-way quarantine-free
🇦🇺 Australia 🇩🇪 Germany 🇰🇭 Cambodia 🇨🇦 Canada 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇫🇯 Fiji 🇫🇮 Finland 🇫🇷 France 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇳 India 🇮🇱 Israel 🇮🇹 Italy 🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇲🇻 Maldives 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇶🇦 Qatar
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇪🇸 Spain 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇹🇭 Thailand 🇹🇷 Turkey 🇦🇪 UAE 🇬🇧 UK 🇺🇸 USA 🇻🇳 Vietnam
1-way quarantine-free (to Singapore)
🇧🇳 Brunei 🇭🇰 Hong Kong
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Updated: 16 March 2022
VTL designated flights
One of the more complex (or at least annoying) parts of the VTL scheme is the requirement to travel only on designated flights between a VTL country and Singapore. This reduces risk, in the eyes of Singapore authorities at least, by ensuring that all passengers arriving on the scheme are not only tested before departure, but are also fully vaccinated.
It is also possible to transit in another VTL country from a non-designated flight, but your final leg to Singapore must still be on a VTL service.
For example, you can fly from Edinburgh, UK to Amsterdam, Netherlands on easyJet, then take a VTL-designated flight with KLM or Singapore Airlines non-stop to Singapore, and still benefit from quarantine-free arrival, if you meet the other VTL criteria.
The full list
Here are the confirmed details for the specific VTL approved flights, with schedules now published by carriers on a total of over 70 VTL routes (click to expand).
Here’s a reminder of the key process and requirements for the VTL arrangement when arriving in Singapore from a VTL country.
Singapore Vaccinated Travel Lanes
Key Features
Must have stayed in a VTL country/region and/or an approved travel history country (EEA + 3) and/or Singapore for the last 7 consecutive days
Travel to Singapore on designated ‘VTL flights’ (see above)
No restrictions on travel purpose or itineraries
Must be fully vaccinated with a WHO-approved vaccine in Singapore, or any VTL country (e.g. Australia), or any EU member state, or any non-EU countries that have joined the EU DCC system
Must have an accepted digital proof of vaccination
Unvaccinated children aged 12 or under can accompany their parents
You can travel to most VTL countries on any flight
You won’t find any VTL designated flights from Singapore to a VTL country, because the requirement only applies to those arriving in Singapore, with one exception so far.
The Singapore – Malaysia VTL, which started on 29th November 2021, is a bilateral agreement, and therefore Malaysia is also applying its own VTL requirements for those arriving from Singapore.
That includes taking designated flights in the Singapore – Malaysia direction as well as when flying from Malaysia to Singapore, which is why you’ll see a separate list of designated flights in this case (Singapore to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to Penang).
If you’re based in Singapore and taking an overseas trip to most other VTL countries, you should take a nonstop flight, or transit only in other VTL or Category 1 countries en-route, to keep your 7-day travel history ‘clean’ for your return journey eligibility (unless your stay in VTL countries will be more than 7 days).
If you’re based overseas and are merely visiting Singapore using the VTL, it doesn’t matter what flight you take at the end of your trip to return home, subject to the prevailing arrival restrictions (based on travel history) of your destination country.
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The 34 airlines operating VTL designated flights are:
Passengers transiting at Changi to a further final destination are allowed to take designated VTL flights.
That is a slight change from the original version of the VTL, where only point-to-point passengers could board designated VTL services.
The exception is VTL flights between Singapore and Malaysia, and those from India to Singapore, which do not currently accept transit passengers.
If you’re booked on a designated VTL flight but are transiting in Changi, you can therefore still retain your booking and travel on the flight, provided you are fully vaccinated and comply with the any testing requirements for your final destination.
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To travel on a VTL flight to Singapore as a transit passenger with on onward connection to another final destination (e.g. London – Singapore – Male), you must:
be fully vaccinated against COVID-19; and
hold a valid vaccination certificate in English, issued by any country; and
meet all the entry requirements for your destination country (including pre-departure testing, if applicable)
Summary
Singapore’s Vaccinated Travel Lane concept hopefully won’t be around for much longer, as the country’s Omicron wave subsides, or at the very least the system will be simplified to allow people to travel from almost any country, provided they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
This should mean the designated VTL flight concept will soon be a thing of the past, but until we have a firm date you will still have to plan to fly into Singapore (and in the case of Malaysia, in both directions) on one of these services to enjoy quarantine-free travel.
Remember that individual airlines will only advertise their own VTL designated flights, so do refer to the full list above for all your options, which may be cheaper, operate on your preferred date or time, and could have better award space too.
We’ll continue to keep this page up to date as new VTL flights are added and formally announced, so do bookmark it for future reference, since many routes benefit from more than one airline option.
Hi Andrew, are you able to share where you got the information that BA0015 from LHR to SIN is a VTL flight, for the dates 27th March 2022 – 31st May 2022?
We tried searching BA’s website but could find zero confirmation. Greatly appreciate it, thank you!
We have a flight during this period too and are trying to confirm if it’s VTL. BA is useless – I can’t get through via phone and there is no way of knowing what is VTL and what is not on their website.
question. If we have a seafarer lives Poland that has no VTL flights yet from there, can he travel to SIN via VTL flight like for example AMS or DOHA? will he be required to do quarantine in SIN or upon his arrival he will do ART once one it negative he is free?
We have a flight booked with BA to Singapore (is included in your list). When I was last able to get through to BA they were pretty useless and said it wasn’t VTL (this was approx 10 days ago I spoke to them). How were you able to confirm the BA VTL flight please?
I am trying to get into Malaysia through Singapore after 1st April, just wanted to confirm that there is no bilateral agreement VTL requirements from going to Malaysia and coming back to Singapore? I can choose any flight to Malaysia as well as Singapore?
Tiruchirappalli – Singapore VTL schedule is incorrect.
https://www.flyscoot.com/en/announcements/vaccinated-travel-lanes-flights
Thanks, corrected. Even Scoot’s own VTL page is wrong actually! Schedule above now reflects the latest accurate status.
Andrew, if someone has a Covid recovery certificate, or discharge memo etc, do they still need to enter SG via a VTL flight?
No you can take any flight if you’re entering via the recovered traveller lane
This is useful. Thanks for taking the effort to do this and update. Sure hope the VTL concept is abandoned soon.
Yes let’s hope so – then it will be even simpler in that direction at least!
Hi Andrew, are you able to share where you got the information that BA0015 from LHR to SIN is a VTL flight, for the dates 27th March 2022 – 31st May 2022?
We tried searching BA’s website but could find zero confirmation. Greatly appreciate it, thank you!
We have a flight during this period too and are trying to confirm if it’s VTL. BA is useless – I can’t get through via phone and there is no way of knowing what is VTL and what is not on their website.
question. If we have a seafarer lives Poland that has no VTL flights yet from there, can he travel to SIN via VTL flight like for example AMS or DOHA? will he be required to do quarantine in SIN or upon his arrival he will do ART once one it negative he is free?
i hope to receive a soonest response thank you
How do I know if my flight is a VTL flight please?
Did you check the list?
Hi Andrew,
We have a flight booked with BA to Singapore (is included in your list). When I was last able to get through to BA they were pretty useless and said it wasn’t VTL (this was approx 10 days ago I spoke to them). How were you able to confirm the BA VTL flight please?
Many thanks
Hello! Do you have a list for Helsinki (Finland) to Singapore?
I am getting a different schedule for SIN-PEN & PEN-SIN on AirAsia website. Can you please double check?
Hi
I am trying to get into Malaysia through Singapore after 1st April, just wanted to confirm that there is no bilateral agreement VTL requirements from going to Malaysia and coming back to Singapore? I can choose any flight to Malaysia as well as Singapore?
is this information still valid in 2023
This information has been very helpful thanks for sharing this post.