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Singapore – Hong Kong Air Travel Bubble Starts On November 22, 2020

by John Ollila
November 11, 2020
Reading Time: 4 mins read

Singapore and Hong Kong have agreed about an Air Travel Bubble (ATB) between the two city-states that begins on November 22, 2020, with one flight per day in each direction.

There are plenty of tests required that come at a cost, but ATB is open for all eligible travelers that have been in Singapore or Hong Kong in the previous 14 days.

There will be bubble flights on both Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific. Singapore Airlines already flies between these two destinations, but connecting passengers are not allowed on these ATB flights.

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There is a quota of 200 travelers per flight. There will be one flight on each day in each direction between November 22 – December 7, 2020, when the flights become twice daily (and I would assume one flight per day on both Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines).

Bubble flights

  • Singapore – Hong Kong SQ890 & CX734
  • Hong Kong – Singapore SQ891 & CX59

Hong Kong requires a preflight negative Covid-19 test as well as one on arrival at HKG. Passengers must wait at the Hong Kong airport for their test results.

There are plenty of other requirements that the following diagrams released by the HK SAR government explain:

Hong Kong – Singapore

Singapore – Hong Kong

Here’s the press release from HK SAR Government

Designated flights under HK-Singapore Air Travel Bubble to launch November 22

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The Governments of Hong Kong and Singapore today (November 11) announced the detailed arrangements of the bilateral Air Travel Bubble (ATB), with designated flights to be launched on November 22, taking a significant step forward in resuming cross-border air travel between the two places in an orderly manner.

The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Mr Edward Yau, said, “This is the very first ATB for Hong Kong. It matters not only for cross-border travel between the two places, but also reflects the Government’s hope to progressively restore the city’s economic activities amid the long-drawn battle against COVID-19.

“Hong Kong and Singapore are similar in terms of epidemic control. Both are regional aviation hubs and international cities, enjoying strong trade, investment, finance, tourism and people-to-people ties. The revival of cross-border air travel between the two places is of utmost importance. We hope that aviation, tourism, hotel, retail and catering businesses can benefit from it, thereby enabling Hong Kong’s economy to recover gradually,” he said.

Under the ATB arrangement, travellers between the two places will not be subject to any quarantine arrangements upon arrival, nor restrictions to their travel purposes or itineraries on the condition that they comply with a set of anti-epidemic protocols.

There are stringent measures in place to safeguard public health under the arrangement, including mutually recognised COVID-19 tests, designated flights for ATB passengers as well as a scalable mechanism to adjust the ATB arrangement having regard to the epidemic situation. All measures are meant to resume cross-border air travel in a safe and progressive manner.

On COVID-19 testing, the ATB travellers must have tested negative in mutually recognised tests taken within 72 hours before their departure. They must also have no travel history to any places other than Singapore or Hong Kong in the last 14 days prior to their departure. The ATB travellers must travel on designated flights to minimise risks. The number of designated flights arriving at Hong Kong will increase progressively, from one flight per day in the first 15 days to two flights per day thereafter depending on the actual implementation. Each designated flight can carry a maximum of 200 ATB travellers. All ATB travellers must undertake COVID-19 tests again via a designated lane at the airport upon arrival at Hong Kong, and then wait at a restricted area of the airport until the receipt of negative test results so that they may leave the airport and start their itineraries.

In addition, the scalable mechanism put in place under the ATB arrangement allows the scale of the ATB to be instantly and flexibly adjusted depending on the epidemic situation of both places and travellers’ demands. In short, if the seven-day moving average of the daily number of unlinked local COVID-19 cases is more than five for either Singapore or Hong Kong, the ATB arrangement will be suspended for two weeks. If the relevant figure reported on the last day of the suspension period does not exceed the specified threshold of five, the ATB arrangement can resume. Details of the ATB arrangement are set out in the Annex.

Mr Yau said that not only will the implementation of the ATB arrangement facilitate resumption of air travel between Hong Kong and Singapore, but will also help enable Hong Kong’s discussions with places, with epidemic situations controlled, on resuming cross-border travel in an orderly manner.

To dovetail with the above development, the Government announced that the application deadline for the Travel Agents Incentive Scheme will be extended to March 31, 2021, to allow more travel agents to make full use of the scheme through inbound and outbound tours.

Conclusion

They have a very low infection requirement for the bubble to burst that may happen suddenly if any community Covid-19 spread in either of these two countries occurs.

Considering that you end paying hundreds for the three Covid-19 tests that a simple trip between two cities requires, I doubt that there will be a plane full of passengers travelers going in either direction. However, it is good that they have tried to develop a solution that allows close to free travel between them.

Singapore has already earlier allowed passengers to arrive in Singapore from Hong Kong using their Air Travel Pass. Still, those wishing to return to HK SAR would have needed to go through the quarantine that can be avoided with this ATB.

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