Scoot Promotion 2013: Scoot to Sydney from SGD 188

Singapore based low-cost, long haul airline Scoot is offering one of the cheapest air ticket prices to Sydney from Singapore. And as if this is not already enough, the airline is now offering cheaper flight promotion to Sydney with fares as low as $188! This "from $188" price is for one-way travel in Economy class out of Singapore only and checked baggage, food and inflight entertainment are not included in the price. If you want to fly in Business Class of Scoot named ScootBiz, the deal price starts from just SGD 398 with FREE lounge access!

And this Scoot flight deal is not for a distant travel period late in 2014. It is for travel period from now to 31 March 2014 (with some blackout periods like during school holidays and event periods of course).

You need to hurry up if you want to enjoy these cheap flights to Sydney because sale ends on 9 October, 11:59pm (SG time) or until seats sell out.

Visit Scoot To Sydney from SGD188 for details.

Other than this deal, Scoot also brought Scoot O'Clock back where you can win Scoot tickets to Sydney! In September, Mediacorp artist, Elvin Ng flew Scoot to Sydney to join the Blackmores Running Festival. He enjoyed the flight and the whole Sydney journey and took so much photos!

Here's a chance to experience Sydney like how Elvin did! Just guess the exact time Elvin took the photo, right down to the exact second and comment your answers below (eg. 04:35:08 pm), first one to guess the correct timing wins a Scoot ticket* to beautiful Sydney Australia!

If no one gets the exact time, we'll be choosing the closest answer! Be sure to get your answers by 11:59 pm (GMT+8), 3 October 2013. Ready? Go! 

Visit Scoot O'Clock for details.

World’s Longest Virtual Flight by Scoot Airlines

Singapore based long-haul budget airline Scoot has announced registrations for a contest what it calls “World’s Longest Virtual Flight”. The contest will take place on 4 June 2013, one year after its first commercial flight, and will follow the same route. The virtual Scoot flight from Singapore to Sydney will "take off" at 9 pm on June 4 and the flight from Sydney to Singapoire will take off at 5 am on 5 June.  Contestants “on board” must tap (mobile) or click (desktop) the “Scoot Virtual Flight” every 60 seconds initially…with the contestant who outlasts all others walking away with S$20,000 cash and free Scoot flights for one year! All participants will also have the chance to receive one of the S$30,000 in Scoot travel vouchers being given away throughout the contest.

“In the past 12 months, Scoot has gone from just one aircraft and one destination to a fleet of five aircraft operating to Sydney, Gold Coast, Bangkok, Taipei, Tokyo, Tianjin, Qingdao and Shenyang, with Seoul and Nanjing commencing in the next two weeks. It’s been a busy and exciting year for all of us at Scoot, and we’re incredibly grateful for all those who’ve supported us. Our online community, especially, has been fantastic, so we wanted to celebrate our first anniversary in a fitting way – and what more fitting way for an online community than to win cash and prizes for doing what they do best: clicking!” said Campbell Wilson, CEO of Scoot.

In addition, 200 contestants will be invited to participate in person at Golden Village City Square Mall theatre, where they can enjoy a free movie marathon, make themselves comfortable with Scoot blankets and “win before they begin” with travel vouchers.

Registrations for the flight was closed yesterday.

Singapore based Scoot is a long-haul budget airline which operates medium and long haul no-frills flights between Singapore and Sydney, Gold Coast, Bangkok, Tianjin, Taipei and Tokyo, with Shenyang and Qingdao commencing shortly

Source : Scoot to Win S$50,000 in cash and tickets!

Cheapest flights to Sydney from London

Flights to Australia from Europe on the Kangaroo Route are not cheap but travelers have cheaper options on the route to enjoy. According to Bloomberg, China Southern Airlines Co. is undercutting Qantas Airways Ltd. by as much as 34 percent on the cost of Sydney-to-London tickets and from April 1 will operate more flights to Europe than the Australian carrier:

China’s three biggest carriers, including Air China Ltd. and China Eastern Airlines Corp., have tripled flights from Oceania to Europe over the past five years, while upgrading services. The route will provide experience needed for further expansion into North America and Europe as annual spending by Chinese tourists exceeds $100 billion. Qantas is fighting back with discounted fares to Asia. 

“The sheer volumes of travelers mean that eventually China can be the most powerful transit country in the region, probably the world,” Peter Harbison, executive chairman of CAPA Centre for Aviation, said by e-mail. “They will be able to price very, very competitively.”
Source : Kangaroo Route Turns Chinese on Guangzhou’s Cheaper Tickets

According to a flight ticket price comperison in the same article, China Southern’s cheapest economy-class fare between Sydney and London for a two-week trip starting May 4 was A$1,442 on travel booking website webjet.com.au yesterday. On the other hand the lowest price for a non-Chinese airline, on Malaysian Airline System Bhd., was 19 percent more expensive at A$1,721. Emirates tickets started at A$1,896 while Singapore Air’s was at A$1,940. The cheapest Qantas ticket was 51 percent more than China Southern, at A$2,180.

A China Southern Airlines Airbus A380-841

China Southern Airlines is the world's sixth-largest airline measured by passengers carried, and Asia's largest airline in terms of both fleet size and passengers carried. The airlines flies to 169 countries worldwide, including code-share destinations. It maintains a strong presence in the domestic market, with its main hubs being Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, and Beijing Capital International Airport, along with other focus cities in Changchun, Changsha, Dalian, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Ürümqi, Wuhan and Zhengzhou. The airline plans to continue to develop Chongqing and Ürümqi as hubs as well to exploit the domestic market potential.