Singapore Airlines and Scoot reveal VTL flight schedules to 29 October 2022

Singapore has extended its Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) scheme, currently operating until 26th March 2022, through to late October next year, with Singapore Airlines and Scoot among the first of 24 VTL-approved airlines to confirm their flight schedules for the seven-month extension.

The SIA Group is operating around 60% of all VTL flights into Singapore (based on March 2022 schedules), so this extended list of designated flights is likely to reflect the lion’s share of Singapore-bound quarantine-free options for the northern summer 2022 season.

Sydney and London see the biggest increase in VTL flights, including Airbus A380s in both cases, while Scoot will no longer operate VTL flights from Seoul and Kuala Lumpur.

This early notice addition of quarantine-free flights could represent a great time to lock in future bookings or redemption tickets, while SIA still has its complimentary rebooking policy in force.

Singapore Airlines and Scoot VTL flights to October 2022

Singapore Airlines has given up maintaining its full list of designated VTL flights, instead directing customers to its flight schedule page or the booking system and simply asking them to look out for the marked services.

Low-cost subsidiary Scoot is also still working on updating its rundown, despite having loaded its VTL flights into the booking system already.

Well don’t worry – we haven’t given up listing all the eligible flights for each route and so naturally we’ve done the legwork for you and searched the entire schedule to identify the ones you’ll need to pick!

Here’s the full list of designated flights on SIA and Scoot’s 37 VTL routes, with schedules from now until late October 2022.

We’ve also noted the key differences introduced from 27th March 2022, and you can click to expand each VTL schedule in turn for a full day of operation / timing breakdown and aircraft details.

VTL flights operated by other carriers are also shown alongside SIA and Scoot flights, where known.

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Adelaide

• SIA will increase its Adelaide VTL flights from 4 weekly to 5 weekly.

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Amsterdam

• SIA will retain daily Amsterdam VTL flights.

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Bangkok

• SIA will retain three times daily Bangkok VTL flights.
• Scoot will reduce to twice weekly Bangkok VTL flights.

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Barcelona

• SIA will retain five times weekly Barcelona VTL flights.

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Berlin

• Scoot will retain three times weekly Berlin VTL flights.

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Brisbane

• SIA will increase its Brisbane VTL flights from 17 to 21 per week.
• 3-class Airbus A350 Long Haul aircraft will be used on the overnight SQ246 VTL service, adding a Premium Economy option on this route.

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Brunei

• SIA will increase its Brunei VTL flights from 1 to 5 per week.

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Chennai

• SIA will retain daily Chennai VTL flights.

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Colombo

• SIA will retain daily Colombo VTL flights.

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Copenhagen

• SIA will retain 5 times weekly Copenhagen VTL flights.

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Delhi

• SIA will retain daily Delhi VTL flights, using Boeing 777-300ERs in April before reinstating Airbus A380s in May.

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Frankfurt

• SIA will retain twice daily Frankfurt VTL flights, upgauging to Airbus A380s on the SQ25 flight for the summer season.
• SQ325 will be downgauged to an Airbus A350.

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Houston

• SIA will retain 3 times weekly Houston VTL flights until early June.
• SIA will increase its Houston VTL flights to 4 per week from early June.

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Istanbul

• SIA will increase its Istanbul VTL flights from 3 to 5 per week.

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Jakarta

• SIA will retain daily Jakarta VTL flights.

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Kuala Lumpur

• SIA will increase its Kuala Lumpur VTL flights from 10 to 12 per week, using A350 Long Haul and 737-8 MAX aircraft.
• Scoot will discontinue VTL flights to and from Kuala Lumpur from 27th March.

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London

• SIA will increase its London VTL flights from 2 to 3 per day from 1st June 2022.

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Los Angeles

• SIA will retain daily Los Angeles VTL flights.

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Male

• SIA will increase its Male VTL flights from 3 per week to daily.

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Manchester

• SIA will retain 3 times weekly Manchester VTL flights until early June.
• SIA will increase its Manchester VTL flights to 4 per week from early June.

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Melbourne

• SIA will increase its Melbourne VTL flights from 3 to 4 times daily from June 2022.
• SIA will deploy Boeing 777-300ERS on 1 daily flight, including First Class.
• Scoot will retain daily Melbourne VTL flights.

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Milan

• SIA will increase its Milan VTL flights from 5 to 7 per week.

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Mumbai

• SIA will retain daily Mumbai VTL flights, using Airbus A380s.

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Munich

• SIA will increase its Munich VTL flights from 5 to 7 per week.

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New York

• SIA will retain twice daily New York (JFK) VTL flights, including Airbus A380s via Frankfurt.

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Paris

• SIA will retain daily Paris VTL flights.

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Perth

• SIA will increase its Perth VTL flights from 17 to 21 per week.
• Scoot will increase its Perth VTL flights from 5 to 6 per week.

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Phnom Penh

• SIA will retain daily Phnom Penh VTL flights.

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Rome

• SIA will retain 5 times weekly Rome VTL flights.
• Flights will continue to operate via Copenhagen.

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San Francisco

• SIA will retain 10 times weekly San Francisco VTL flights.
• All VTL services on this route will switch to 3-class Long Haul A350s.

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Seattle

• SIA will maintain its Seattle VTL flights at 4 per week, with a Vancouver stop en-route top Singapore.

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Seoul

• SIA will increase its Seoul VTL flights from 6 to 14 per week.
• Scoot will discontinue its Seoul VTL flights.

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Siem Reap

• SIA will retain 4 times weekly Siem Reap VTL flights.

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Sydney

• SIA will double its Sydney VTL flights from 14 to 28 per week.
• SIA will continue to deploy Airbus A380s on one Sydney – Singapore VTL service, with one other offering First Class on the Boeing 777-300ER.
• Scoot will retain 4 weekly Sydney VTL services.

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Vancouver

• SIA’s (originally seasonal) Vancouver route is being extended will be retained 4 times weekly from late March 2022 through to late October 2022.

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Zurich

• SIA will retain daily Zurich VTL flights.
• Services will upgauge to the 4-class Boeing 777-300ER for the summer season.

Identifying VTL flights

When you search for VTL flights with Singapore Airlines or Scoot, you should see them clearly marked as such via the website or mobile booking portals.

Most other airlines operating VTL flights to Singapore have a similar marker, or a dedicated page on their website listing which flights are designated VTL services.

All VTL flights

We have already updated our full list of designated VTL flights with these confirmed VTL schedule extensions, along with those confirmed so far by non-SIA Group airlines.

That page includes non-SIA routes like Helsinki and Nadi. It is continuously updated so do bookmark it for the latest changes and announcements.

What about other airlines?

As we mentioned above, around 40% of designated VTL flights to Singapore are operated by one of 23 carriers other than Singapore Airlines, including flights from three cities that don’t have any SIA Group service (Darwin, Helsinki and Nadi).

Most of these airlines have not yet confirmed their list of designated flights for the summer 2022 season, however we can expect them to extend their VTL operations with a similar pattern to their existing services for the seven-month extension of the programme, as SIA has done.

Again we’ll be updating our full list of designated VTL flights by all airlines on all routes as we receive confirmation of these non-SIA services, to give you a one-stop overview of all the quarantine-free options available from each city.

What about new VTL countries?

Just because the current VTL list will be extended until the end of October 2022 doesn’t mean there won’t be any more VTL countries added to the programme between now and then.

Depending on the COVID-19 situation, we can expect further Australian states to open soon, with countries like Vietnam, Japan and Taiwan also likely candidates to make the list in early 2022.

Stay tuned as we’ll always bring you news of the latest VTL additions.

We were really hoping for the designated VTL flight concept to be gone by early 2022, ideally replaced with a much more flexible system allowing fully vaccinated travellers to fly to Singapore on any flight from a VTL country without undergoing quarantine on arrival.

Unfortunately it looks like the concept is here to stay for a while, perhaps partly due to the uncertainty over the Omicron COVID-19 variant, with a confirmed extension until 29th October 2022 – the end of the IATA summer season.

Singapore Airlines is first out of the gate with its schedule announcement for existing VTL routes, but we expect other carriers to follow with confirmation of their own schedules, which currently make up 40% of VTL flights, in due course.

(Cover Photo: Kwok Ho Eddie Wong)