Singapore Airlines hopes to be world’s first fully vaccinated airline

Singapore Airways (SIA) confirmed to CNN Journey that each one of their crew members — together with pilots, gate brokers, flight attendants and anybody whose job requires contact with the general public — have been supplied free coronavirus vaccines by the Singaporean authorities.

“We’re grateful to the Singapore authorities for making the aviation sector a precedence within the nation’s vaccination train,” the airline’s CEO, Goh Choon Phong, stated in a press release that was emailed out to the entire firm on January 18.

“This displays the sector’s significance, and the essential function we play in each Singapore’s financial restoration and the battle in opposition to the pandemic.”

In accordance with the airline, 5,200 SIA workers have already signed as much as get their photographs. Inoculations will start in a couple of days.

Phong, alongside Singapore’s transport minister Ong Ye Kung, was among the many city-state’s first residents to get vaccinated. He has acquired the primary of his two photographs, and experiences that “the process was painless and fuss-free.”

As soon as vaccinated, crew members will probably be topic to much less scrutiny and fewer coronavirus-related safety measures. For instance, flight crew who’re presently examined on the seventh day after their return to Singapore will probably be exempt from this take a look at going ahead.