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Singapore to three new Indian Cities on Scoot

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Scoot, the low-cost arm of the Singapore Airlines Group, has announced plans to add three cities – Coimbatore, Thiruvananthapuram and Visakhapatnam in India – into its service network.

These services will be transferred from sister airline SilkAir, said Vinod Kannan, Chief Commercial Officer, Scoot. It will be the only airline operating direct non-stop flights from Thiruvananthapuram and Visakhapatnam to Singapore.

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Flights from Thiruvananthapuram to Singapore will be launched on May 7, 2019, and those from Coimbatore and Visakhapatnam on October 27, 2019, subject to regulatory approval.

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1979), beginning as a travel agent up through today as a publisher of eTurboNews (eTN), one of the world’s most influential and most-read travel and tourism publications. He is also Chairman of ICTP. His experiences include working and collaborating with various national tourism offices and non-governmental organizations, as well as private and non-profit organizations, and in planning, implementing, and quality control of a range of travel and tourism-related activities and programs, including tourism policies and legislation. His major strengths include a vast knowledge of travel and tourism from the point of view of a successful private enterprise owner, superb networking skills, strong leadership, excellent communication skills, strong team player, attention to detail, dutiful respect for compliance in all regulated environments, and advisory skills in both political and non-political arenas with respect to tourism programs, policies, and legislation. He has a thorough knowledge of current industry practices and trends and is a computer and Internet junkie.