{"id":21684,"date":"2012-02-07T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/scoot-to-debut-singapore-gold-coast-flights-from-june-3\/"},"modified":"2012-02-07T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T10:54:00","slug":"scoot-to-debut-singapore-gold-coast-flights-from-june-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/02\/scoot-to-debut-singapore-gold-coast-flights-from-june-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoot to debut Singapore-Gold Coast flights from June"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygc.com.au\/images\/articles\/2012\/02\/07\/scoot.jpg\" style=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"217\" width=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mygc.com.au\/images\/articles\/2012\/02\/07\/scoot.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has just announced that Singapore Airlines&#8217; low-cost long-haul offshoot Scoot will operate flights to the Gold Coast from June this year.<\/p>\n<p>Five weekly flights will operate from 12 June, with the deal described as a &#8220;multi-million blueprint partnership between government and industry which will open up overseas markets and support Queensland businesses and local jobs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bligh said the deal would see up to 2000 international visitors per week, injecting as much as $65 million annually into the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>Gold Coast Tourism ceo Martin Winter said the route would position the Gold Coast on a new level as an international destination for Singaporeans, with the deal coming after negotiations by a &#8220;cross-agency consortium&#8221; also including Gold Coast Airport, Tourism Queensland and Tourism Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Flights will go on sale in coming months, with Tourism Queensland and Gold Coast Tourism to work together with key industry players in Singapore to &#8220;promote the new route and encourage Singaporeans to think of Queensland for their next holiday&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>More information in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traveldaily.com.au\/\">Travel Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has just announced that Singapore Airlines&#8217; low-cost long-haul offshoot Scoot will operate flights to the Gold Coast from June this year. Five weekly flights will operate from 12 June, with the deal described as a &#8220;multi-million blueprint partnership between government and industry which will open up overseas markets and support Queensland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singapore-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}