SINGAPORE — Singapore has no domestic air travel market and "can't wait around for a vaccine" before allowing more visitors to enter through international flights, the country's transport minister said on Monday.
For a small country like Singapore, the aviation sector needs "all these connections in order to be economically viable," Ong Ye Kung, the transport minister, told CNBC's"We can't wait around for a vaccine, we got to start doing something, active steps," he added. While those "reciprocal green lane" arrangements for corporate travelers keep "essential business dealings going,"An empty baggage collection area at the arrival terminal at Changi Airport on March 24, 2020 in Singapore.Instead, general travel must resume, said the minister. He added that Singapore is working to establish so-called "travel bubbles" with countries that have kept their Covid-19 outbreak under control.