Singapore's Scoot airlines to ski into Hokkaido

Tokyo

ON Saturday, Singapore Airlines' low-cost carrier Scoot will inaugurate three-times-a-week flights from Singapore to Hokkaido - a move that Scoot executives say could open large volumes of travel from South-east Asia to the popular Japanese tourist destination, using Singapore as hub.

The flights (via Taipei) could also result in a significant increase in imports into Singapore of Japanese fish and other food products that are highly popular in Singapore and other parts of South-east Asia.

"Singapore is eager to partner Japanese companies wishing to export Japanese produce," Josephine Teo, Senior Minister of State, Prime Minister's Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Transport, said at a briefing Monday in Toky…