{"id":8371,"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-2\/"},"modified":"2012-02-07T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T10:54:00","slug":"scoot-to-debut-singapore-gold-coast-flights-from-june-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/02\/scoot-to-debut-singapore-gold-coast-flights-from-june-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoot to debut Singapore-Gold Coast flights from June"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygc.com.au\/images\/articles\/2012\/02\/07\/scoot.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><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":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-8371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-singapore-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371","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=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}