Scoot launches direct Singapore-Kuantan flights

Singapore’s Scoot started its direct flights between Singapore

and Kuantan on Feb 2. Bernama pic.

KUANTAN: Low-cost, long-haul Singapore carrier Scoot began direct flights between Singapore and Kuantan yesterday, making the Pahang capital its sixth destination in the country after Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Langkawi, Ipoh and Kuching.

Scoot will fly between the two cities three times a week – on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays – and one-way tickets are priced as low as RM45.

Pahang Tourism and Culture Committee chairman Datuk Seri Mohd Sharkar Shamsuddin said that the city was chosen as the airline's latest destination due to its wide array of tourist attractions and high visitor numbers.

“(The airline’s) confidence in launching the route is, among others, due to the 241,000 inbound and outbound passenger movements at the Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Airport, up to December last year.

“We are pleased that the new route will indirectly boost the tourism industry of Pahang and the economy of its people,” he told a press conference after Scoot’s inaugural flight to Pahang here.

Also present were Scoot chief commercial officer Vinod Kannan; Pahang Tourism general manager Datuk Ishak Mokhtar; and Tourism and Culture Ministry's Pahang office director Datuk Idros Yahya.

-bernama/nst.