Singapore Airways hopes to be world’s to start with completely vaccinated airline

Singapore Airlines (SIA) confirmed to CNN Travel that all of their crew customers — together with pilots, gate agents, flight attendants and anyone whose work demands make contact with with the community — have been presented free coronavirus vaccines by the Singaporean governing administration.

“We are grateful to the Singapore govt for building the aviation sector a priority in the country’s vaccination workout,” the airline’s CEO, Goh Choon Phong, explained in a statement that was emailed out to the full firm on January 18.

“This displays the sector’s value, and the essential part we participate in in equally Singapore’s financial restoration and the fight towards the pandemic.”

In accordance to the airline, 5,200 SIA employees have currently signed up to get their pictures. Inoculations will commence in a number of times.

Phong, along with Singapore’s transport minister Ong Ye Kung, was amongst the metropolis-state’s to start with citizens to get vaccinated. He has acquired the to start with of his two photographs, and studies that “the treatment was painless and fuss-free of charge.”

As soon as vaccinated, crew users will be subject matter to considerably less scrutiny and less coronavirus-relevant security actions. For case in point, flight crew who are now examined on the seventh working day soon after their return to Singapore will be exempt from this check going ahead.