Athens, Kota Kinabalu, and Manado are being added as Scoot resumes flights to all three destinations.

The fluid pandemic situation has not stopped the Singapore Airlines Group from ramping up its efforts to restore Changi Airport’s role as a key stopover point for global travelers. Thanks to lower infection rates in the United Kingdom and South Africa, those flying in from London and Johannesburg are allowed to catch connecting flights at Changi once more.

Transits from three more Scoot destinations can also resume this month: Kota Kinabalu will be added back to the list this Saturday (May 8), while flights to Athens start on May 20, and those to the Indonesian city of Manado will relaunch on May 28. In related news, Singapore Airlines was originally slated to resume regular services to Denpasar sometime this month, but those plans have since been postponed as international passenger flights to and from Bali remain suspended for now.

In line with the latest border measures implemented in the Lion City, passengers with a travel history to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka in the past 14 days are no longer allowed to transit through Changi Airport. For this reason, Colombo, Dhaka, and Kathmandu have been temporarily taken off the list of approved points of departure.

Singapore Airlines and Scoot have stopped carrying transit passengers to Hong Kong citing “regulatory requirements.” Both carriers were recently slapped with two-week flight bans on the route, as a number of transit passengers tested positive for Covid-19 on arrival and documentation carried by others did not meet the standards set out by Hong Kong health authorities. That said, services from Hong Kong to Singapore remain unaffected, and passengers originating from Hong Kong are still allowed to transfer through Changi en route to their final destinations.

So far, SIA has signed interline agreements with seven other carriers to allow their customers to fly from any of the approved points of departure and then continue their journeys on SIA Group flights. These are:

• Air France
• Air Niugini
• Garuda Indonesia
• KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
• Lufthansa
• Swiss International Air Lines
• Turkish Airlines

As of May 5, the cities and airlines approved for transit flights through Singapore are as follows:

	City	Carrier
Australia	Adelaide Brisbane Melbourne Perth Sydney	Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines, Scoot Singapore Airlines, Scoot Singapore Airlines
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	Singapore Airlines
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Singapore Airlines
China	Chongqing Guangzhou Nanjing Shanghai Shenzhen Tianjin Wuhan Zhengzhou	Singapore Airlines Scoot Scoot Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines Scoot Scoot Scoot
Denmark	Copenhagen	Singapore Airlines
France	Paris	Singapore Airlines
Germany	Frankfurt Munich	Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines
Greece	Athens	Scoot (from May 20)
Indonesia	Denpasar Jakarta Manado Medan Surabaya	Singapore Airlines (Postponed) Singapore Airlines Scoot (from May 28) Singapore Airlines Scoot
Italy	Milan	Singapore Airlines
Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Singapore Airlines, Scoot
Japan	Osaka Tokyo (Haneda) Tokyo (Narita) Fukuoka Nagoya	Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines, Scoot Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines
Macau	Macau	Scoot
Malaysia	Ipoh Kota Kinabalu Kuala Lumpur Kuching Penang	Scoot Scoot (from May 8) Singapore Airlines, Scoot Scoot Scoot
Maldives	Male	Singapore Airlines
Myanmar	Yangon	Singapore Airlines
Netherlands	Amsterdam	Singapore Airlines
New Zealand	Auckland Christchurch	Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines
Philippines	Cebu Clark Manila	Scoot Scoot Singapore Airlines
Russia	Moscow (Domodedovo)	Singapore Airlines
South Africa	Johannesburg	Singapore Airlines
South Korea	Seoul	Singapore Airlines, Scoot
Spain	Barcelona	Singapore Airlines
Switzerland	Zürich	Singapore Airlines
Taiwan	Taipei	Singapore Airlines, Scoot
Thailand	Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi) Phuket	Singapore Airlines, Scoot Singapore Airlines
Turkey	Istanbul	Singapore Airlines
UAE	Dubai	Singapore Airlines
United Kingdom	London (Heathrow)	Singapore Airlines
United States	Los Angeles New York (JFK) San Francisco	Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines
Vietnam	Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City	Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines, Scoot