Everything Scoot

[Waiping 12]

Ah, thanks.

[CH Teo 0]

TZ is Scoot's IATA code, Their Callsign is SCOOTER, ICAO code is SCO

 

Ooops, got mixed up with all those terms...yea, it should be IATA code instead...

[Aaron Goh 1]

Someone just posted a TR on Barry's flight to SYD in A.net

 

http://www.airliners...ad.main/219245/

 

what a coicidence thats my flight

[Raymund Yeoh 1]

what a coicidence thats my flight

 

awaiting for a TR from you.....

[flee 5]

Looks like Scoot is catching on. Previously it was easy to query the booking engine when they had special offers. Today I was trying to check the Taipei S$88 tickets but all I got was a very familiar BUSY page. Unfortunately, they are still at the beginning of their learning curve and there is no waiting room...

[Kenneth Chong WT 0]

what a coicidence thats my flight

 

You're a friend of Gilbert right? Saw your picture from Gil'd FB profile...proud to have Kuching lang flying for TZ! Hope to be on your flight one day....cheers!

[Aaron Goh 1]

You're a friend of Gilbert right? Saw your picture from Gil'd FB profile...proud to have Kuching lang flying for TZ! Hope to be on your flight one day....cheers!

 

Yes, one of the kch mwingers. Sorry guys, no TR dont know how to write and post properly.

[Hakan 2]

Hello folks,

I have a forum friends who is member of a travel forum. They have a plan to Thailand,Malaysia and Singapore. They are searching airline tickets right now and they found great value from Singapore to Bangkok leg with " scoot airways"

 

What do you think about Scoot airways? is there anyone to had any experience with this airline, have you got any information about airline such as "at the time schedule" or in charter regulation (felxible schedule) etc. Do you suggest this airline or not?

[Raymund Yeoh 1]

its a LCC....belongs to Singapore Airlines....if the price is good, no hamr trying since its just a 2 hours SIN-BKK

[Josh T 0]

Check out Skytrax. Some reviews for Scoot are already up.

[alberttky 0]

Several Asian low-cost carriers are starting new flights to provide increasing connections between their hubs and China.

The Singaporean airline Scoot is launching a three-times weekly service between Singapore and the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang from November 27, with the return leg flying via the eastern seaport of Qingdao.

Flight TZ86 will leave Singapore on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays at 0200 and land in Shenyang at 0835. Return leg TZ86/85 will then leave Shenyang at 0950, stopping over at Qingdao, before landing back in Singapore at 1845.

Shenyang is an important hub for heavy and, more recently, high-tech industries, and a strategic gateway to the northeastern region of China. Qingdao, on the other hand, is home to a number of large companies such as electronics firm Haier. It has seen much development in secondary and tertiary industries in recent years and it also produces the world famous Tsingtao beer. Once a German colony, this coastal city is a popular tourist destination for its European architecture and nautral beauty.

Last week Scoot also began flights to Tianjin (see story here).

Meanwhile, AirAsia is also starting new flights linking China with Southeast Asia. Thai AirAsia will begin flying daily between Bangkok Don Meung and the central Chinese city of Wuhan from October 19, according to industry website Airlineroute.net.

Flight FD2570 will leave Don Meung at 0715 and land in Wuhan at 1135, with the return leg leaving at 1220 and landing back in Bangkok at 1510. Wuhan, located in the middle of China, is a major land and air transport hub and home to a large number of international and domestic technology companies.

 

AirAsia has also said it plans to introduce new routes between Southeast Asia and the Chinese cities of Xian, Kunming, and Nanning.

Most of China's recent economic growth has been seen in inland and second-tier cities. Business Traveller Asia-Pacific is launching a series from September to offer more information on these growing hubs, starting with Xiamen.

 

http://www.businesstraveller.com/asia-pacific/news/asian-lccs-linking-china-with-southeast-asia

[Sharil Abdul Rahman 0]

Just a head's up - Scoot's Japan route is announced.

 

and their promo price is....dissapointing.

 

their promo = D7 normal ticket.

 

How la?

[alberttky 0]

SIA's Scoot needs feed from Tiger Airways and smaller aircraft to achieve profitable growth

 

 

 

The new partnership unveiled on 01-Oct-2012 between low-cost carriers Scoot and Tiger Airways is an overdue but critical step in the evolution of the Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group. The group is betting that aligning its long-haul and short-haul LCC brands will improve the profitability and growth prospects for both carriers. While Scoot has been open to connectivity since its inception, Tiger has made a major shift in strategy to accommodate this connectivity.

 

SIA, however, remains adamant that it should maintain complete separation with no transfer of passengers between its two low-cost brands and two full-service brands (Singapore Airlines and regional subsidiarySilkAir). This conservative strategy could end up backfiring as it goes against the successful formula used by other airline groups such as Qantas.

 

Scoot is also evaluating smaller widebody aircraft that will allow it to open more destinations than it can with its present fleet of Boeing 777-200s.

For Tiger, working with Scoot should unlock important new growth opportunities in a market that is now approaching saturation. For Scoot, the tie-up is even more important as feed is typically a critical component of the low-cost long-haul model. The Tiger partnership should improve the performance on some of Scoot’s existing routes and open up new routes that would not be viable without feed.

But Scoot will need a more robust partnership with Tiger (initially only three Tiger and two Scoot destinations are covered) and smaller widebody aircraft if it is to pursue significant and profitable growth. While it only launched services in Jun-2012, Scoot is already starting to run out of potential destinations that can be profitability served with its fleet of 402-seat 777-200s.

 

 

Continue reading at http://centreforaviation.com/analysis/sias-scoot-needs-feed-from-tiger-airways-and-smaller-aircraft-to-achieve-profitable-growth-84407

[Kenneth Chong WT 0]

I won a SGD10 Scoot voucher...anyone wants? I can PM you the code...don't even know if it works! Worth trying if you are flying to Scoot...

[flee 5]

More here:

http://www.flyscoot.com/index.php/en/promo-fares-sg.html?utm_source=ex_sg&utm_medium=edm&utm_campaign=080413_nanjing_launch

[flee 5]

Scoot selects Nanjing, capping a busy first year of operations for the Singapore Airlines subsidiary

 

Singapore Airlines' (SIA) low-cost long-haul subsidiary Scoot has completed the last phase of its initial network development, announcing on 8-Apr-2013 the selection of Nanjing as its 11th destination and fourth in mainland China. Scoot will be the only foreign LCC at Nanjing, which like most secondary cities in China is underserved from an international perspective.

 

Singapore-Nanjing will be launched on 3-Jun-2013 and give Scoot a total of eight routes by its first year anniversary on 4-Jun-2013. After celebrating its first year anniversary the start-up is expected to take a hiatus from fleet and network and expansion for at least 18 months. The hiatus will allow the carrier to focus on improving profitability as its initial network and business model beds down.

 

The hiatus also gives Scoot ample time to prepare for the delivery of the first of at least 20 787s in late 2014. The 787 will usher in a new era of growth and improved profitability for the carrier. But while Scoot waits for its mix of 787-9s and 787-8s, competitors could pursue faster expansion, leaving Scoot with a smaller slice of Asia’s emerging low-cost medium/long-haul market.

 

Full analysis: http://centreforaviation.com/analysis/scoot-selects-nanjing-capping-a-busy-first-year-of-operations-for-the-singapore-airlines-subsidiary-104203

[Isaac 0]

 

Scoot selects Nanjing, capping a busy first year of operations for the Singapore Airlines subsidiary

SQ used to have 3x weekly service to NKG, operated by a 2-class 772 offering 323 seats. Anyone remembers when did they terminate the NKG service ? Have always thought MI will takeover this route from SQ...

Edited April 9, 2013 by Isaac

[alberttky 0]

They stopped it soon after HSR was introduced between NKG and SHA.

Edited April 9, 2013 by alberttky

[alberttky 0]

A YEAR and a half ago, Scoot had yet to even launch its inaugural flight.

Since it first took to the skies in June 2012, the Singapore Airlines-owned budget carrier has built its fleet up, from one Boeing 777-200 aircraft to six such planes. It has also expanded its network to 13 destinations and grown its headcount from a mere 20 employees to about 520 today. To date, it has carried nearly two million passengers and maintains an average load factor of just over 80 per cent.

Scoot chief executive Campbell Wilson says: "It's been a very dramatic expansion in terms of fleet, in terms of network and in terms of staff strength. As we've developed, we've refined our procedures and processes. The last few months, we operated at a punctuality of over 90 per cent."

A lot of this fine-tuning - whether it is doubling the number of staff at its outsourced call centre in the Philippines or giving passengers a 12-hour window to amend their bookings without charge - has come about through experience.

Mr Wilson, a New Zealander, recalled that he had 12 months and a team of four with which to start up the airline.

"That was probably the biggest challenge - keeping the hundreds of work streams on track and going on despite the lack of bodies, lack of experience, lack of expertise. It was only once we got to six months - started bringing people onboard - that it started to ease off," he says.

The chief executive was to learn next that getting the plane in the air was just the start. When Scoot launched its inaugural flight to Sydney in June last year, the flight was delayed after a warning light for one of the engines came on, prompting maintenance checks. Fortunately, no fault was found.

Then on that flight, the meal service took three hours despite being manned by an experienced cabin crew.

"It's the little things - like what thing is in what cart, what cart gets pushed out first, who stands behind it. All of these things are like a choreographed dance and you don't realise, for a full-service airline like Singapore Airlines (SIA), they've been choreographing that dance for 40 years.

"Until you meet the real world, you don't know where the holes are. Very quickly, you're going back to the drawing board," he says.

He knows firsthand how the airline has had to react, in a short space of time, to shortfalls that come to its attention, such as by doubling the staff strength at its call centre after learning the hard way that it had underestimated the number of customers who would call in.

The airline has since kept track of the answer rate for calls, and monitored the online space, where it gets feedback on its service.

The SIA veteran joined the group back in 1996 after having been general manager for the carrier in Japan, a vice-president in Canada and a network planning analyst in SIA's head office.

In 2011, SIA, which also holds a stake in low-cost airline Tigerair, announced that it would set up a budget carrier within a year - a move widely seen as the group's effort to claw back ground lost over the years to budget carriers such as Jetstar Asia and AirAsia as low-cost travel began to take off as a concept.

From the very start, Scoot made it clear that it would be a completely different animal from SIA, which occupies the premium end of the spectrum. Scoot, with its tongue-in-cheek advertisements, bright yellow planes and unapologetically cheeky attitude - it typically names each of its planes, with a recent one christened Bo-eng ("busy" in Hokkien) Boeing - signalled that it would play by a different set of rules.

Now, a year and a half of learning experiences and fairly aggressive expansion later, it is "reasonably happy" with what it has achieved. By year-end, Scoot will run flights to 13 destinations including Hong Kong and Perth, both of which were recently announced. It now owns and operates five B777-200s, with a sixth leased recently. The 402-seat aircraft is typically configured with 370 economy seats and 32 ScootBiz seats, the latter being akin to the premium economy seats on a full-service carrier.

Punctuality

Having more than four planes has created the luxury of a buffer in the form of a spare aircraft if any of the other planes is back late, which helps with punctuality. The carrier now schedules its fifth aircraft to leave Singapore in the morning for Nanjing or Seoul, so that it can be back at night as a back-up for departures in the 11pm-to-2am window.

In about a year, the airline will start taking delivery of the first of 20 Boeing 787s that it has on order. About half of those planes will come on-stream by 2015 and 2016, which will then allow the airline to retire its existing B777s in favour of the Dreamliners. The planes will be used to launch new routes as well as bump up frequencies on existing ones.

Mr Wilson says: "Inaugurating Hong Kong and Perth allows us to spread our growth over a longer period because otherwise, we'd have to induct a huge number of new cities in a very short span of time. By starting now, we can get a bit of a headstart on that rapid growth and, hopefully, earn some money in the interim."

Scoot will commence flights five times weekly to Hong Kong from Nov 15, and ramp this up to a daily flight during peak season.

Flights to Perth will start on Dec 12, a week earlier than planned, following strong interest from customers. The west Australian city will be Scoot's third Australian destination after Sydney and the Gold Coast.

Moving from the sizeable B777s to the Dreamliner, which offers lower operating costs and smaller seating capacity, gives Scoot the flexibility to launch new routes or add frequencies which may be unsuitable for a bigger plane.

The 777s, already some 15 years old and with typically a decade more in lifespan, were acquired from SIA and retrofitted to suit Scoot's operations.

"At some point, taking advantage of the latest technology is necessary," says Mr Wilson.

When Scoot has taken delivery of all 20 Dreamliners in the next six years, its staff strength will have grown some more. "By end next year, we'll have more than 1,000 staff. SilkAir has that number of staff now, and it's been around for 20 years," he pointed out.

And when Scoot starts to broaden its network, much of that growth will likely come from what he described as its "economic sweet spot" - destinations that are between five and nine hours away, that is, in countries such as China, India, Australia, South Korea and Japan.

The Dreamliners can go as far as London, but routes further afield make it necessary for the aircraft to carry more fuel and install equipment to fall in line with regulatory requirements, such as bunks for its cabin crew to rest. The higher costs from these could make it harder to eke out a profit on such routes.

Scoot already flies to China, Australia, South Korea and Japan, but has yet to launch flights to India, which remains on the airline's radar. Mr Wilson says that India offers several potential destinations beyond a five-hour radius, particularly in the north-west of the country. Identifying a route that is not already tapped fully, and the entitlements under the air-service agreements between Singapore and India are other factors that could shape the choice of destination in the sub-continent.

The populous nation with a burgeoning passenger market has caught the eye of other airlines too. Malaysia's AirAsia is working on setting up an India-based budget carrier with the Tata Group; SIA has also teamed up with Tata to establish a full-service carrier, and Tigerair already offers services to cities such as Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad.

But while AirAsia has also signalled its intention to focus on secondary airports in India, it will likely start out with domestic routes. On the other hand, Scoot will focus on the Singapore-India segment.

Vision for Scoot

Reflecting on his vision for Scoot, Mr Wilson says that the Singapore unit must be "robust and sustainable, (having) attained a level of credibility in terms of its operational integrity, brand awareness and positioning". He adds: "That means it's a healthy, ongoing viable business."

The goal is no doubt made slightly easier by the growing popularity of low-cost carriers, as fast-paced growth in regional economies and an emerging middle class take demand for air travel to new heights.

It is what makes Mr Wilson bullish about the prospects of the low-cost travel industry.

"The budget market has grown dramatically over the past 10 years and is now a sizeable share of the total market," he says. The pace of growth in Singapore may slow down, but there is still plenty of room for further growth, he says.

Last year, low-cost carriers accounted for about 30 per cent of traffic at Changi Airport, up from some 28 per cent in 2011.

And while Scoot's operations in Singapore remain its primary focus, Mr Wilson does not rule out setting up an overseas base down the road, given the limited size of the market here.

"We will not take our eye off the ball with respect to making this continue to work as a business, as an operation, as an employer (and) as a vehicle for promoting traffic to, and facilitating traffic out of, Singapore.

"That will remain the focus, but we need to realise that Singapore is a relatively small place. It is already a well-served place with respect to airlines."

He adds: "Is it forever going to be our only base? That's where the future challenge comes - to continue to induct the aircraft and grow, as we plan to do with the 787s, and at the same time, think of what further opportunities could be available to us."

http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/specials/forward-thinkers/scooting-bigger-plans-20131030

[Mike P 0]

This morning, I booked the morning glory promo fares at MYR 960, SIN - OOL, SYD - SIN, inclusive with meal and luggage. Thought it's quite a good fare.

[jeremy low 0]

This morning, I booked the morning glory promo fares at MYR 960, SIN - OOL, SYD - SIN, inclusive with meal and luggage. Thought it's quite a good fare.

 

Recently they had the $3 promotion followed by another $24 promotion.

 

I managed to booked the Taipei flight at $3 ($182 nett for 2 pax including 20kg checked bag to TPE and 25kg back to SIN)

 

My friend managed to get the $24 tickets to Gold Coast during the $24 promotion.

[alberttky 0]

I managed to get the 2 cents deal. Me, my wife and infant from SIN to NRT return last month with baggage and makan at SGD600 all in.

[flee 5]

Photos: inside Scoot's Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

 

Singapore Airlines' low-cost offshoot Scoot will take delivery of its first Boeing 787-9 in November this year and shift to an all-Boeing 787 fleet by the middle of 2015 as the airline seeks to parlay the Dreamliner's increased fuel efficiency into a healthier bottom line.

Scoot says the first destinations for the Boeing 787-9 will "include Australia, Japan and Taiwan".

More: http://www.ausbt.com.au/photos-inside-scoot-s-boeing-787-9-dreamliner

[alberttky 0]

[Walter Sim 1]

Hahahaha love the dancing seats!