With the outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Singapore Airlines (SIA) announced on its website that they are waiving cancellation fees and administrative fees for refund, rebooking or rerouting for flights arriving at or departing from Seoul’s Incheon International Airport, as expected from the world’s leading airline.
It would be a total bummer if you had to experience the double blow of cancelling your much-awaited plans to ride the K-wave and be penalised when all you wanted was to avoid catching the MERS virus – like that isn’t reasonable enough a justification to cancel a trip.
SIA’s budget airline Scoot also announced on its website that customers will be permitted to either rebook their flight to another destination or shift it to another date, but they will still have to pay the fare difference.
Following the diagnosis of the first infected patient on May 20, the outbreak has since claimed nine lives and the number of people who may have been in contact with MERS patients and quarantined has escalated to 3,439, according to Channel NewsAsia. For now, many Singaporeans are adopting the wait-and-see attitude regarding any travels to South Korea.
Photo: d'n'c via Flickr
With the outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Singapore Airlines (SIA) announced on its website that they are waiving cancellation fees and administrative fees for refund, rebooking or rerouting for flights arriving at or departing from Seoul’s Incheon International Airport, as expected from the world’s leading airline.
It would be a total bummer if you had to experience the double blow of cancelling your much-awaited plans to ride the K-wave and be penalised when all you wanted was to avoid catching the MERS virus – like that isn’t reasonable enough a justification to cancel a trip.
SIA’s budget airline Scoot also announced on its website that customers will be permitted to either rebook their flight to another destination or shift it to another date, but they will still have to pay the fare difference.
Following the diagnosis of the first infected patient on May 20, the outbreak has since claimed nine lives and the number of people who may have been in contact with MERS patients and quarantined has escalated to 3,439, according to Channel NewsAsia. For now, many Singaporeans are adopting the wait-and-see attitude regarding any travels to South Korea.
Photo: d'n'c via Flickr