Scoot not keen on Changi's T4 'folly', says CEO

[SYDNEY] Singapore Airlines Ltd's budget carrier Scoot doesn't want to use Singapore's new airport terminal and regards the S$1.28 billion facility as a "folly", says the unit's chief executive officer.

Changi Airport's Terminal Four (T4) - which is being designed to handle 16 million passengers a year when it opens in 2017 - doesn't have good enough connections to the rest of the airport, Scoot Airways Pte CEO Campbell Wilson said at a conference in Sydney yesterday. T4 is short of slots for wide-body aircraft such as Scoot's Boeing 787s, he said.

Scoot, which has flown about three million passengers since it started services in June 2012, is owned by Changi's largest user Singapore Airlines (SIA) and code-shares flights with budget carrier Tiger Airways Ltd, in which the city-state's flag carrier has a 40 per cent stake. Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd in April became the first airline to announce a move to the new terminal.