Singapore Airlines plans flights to nowhere to boost business

SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines Ltd is planning so-called flights to nowhere – trips that start and end at the same airport – in an attempt to boost its grounded passenger business, the Straits Times reported Friday, citing unidentified people.

Stricter travel rules to control the spread of Covid-19 pandemic have battered the aviation industry worldwide, with carriers such as Singapore Airlines hit particularly hard because they don’t operate domestic flights. Singapore Airlines isn’t the first to offer trips whose destination is the airport from which it departed.

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