Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/04
By: Lee Hsin-Yin
Taipei, Dec. 4 (CNA) Singapore-based budget airline Scoot, which has operated in Taiwan for five years,
Image taken from Wikimedia Commons
is optimistic about prospects in the local market because its development strategy suits Taiwan’s New Southbound policy, a company executive said recently.
“Taiwan is like a mini-hub for us,” according to Vinod Kannan, Scoot’s chief commercial officer, in a conversation with CNA last week. “So the Southbound policy is exactly in line with what we are doing.”
The policy, launched in mid-2016 to reduce Taiwan’s dependence on China, seeks to increase Taiwan’s cooperation with Southeast Asian and South Asian countries, as well as New Zealand and Australia.
The low-cost carrier is also eyeing further expansion of its network in Southeast Asia, especially after a merger in July with Tigerair Singapore that gave Scoot more than 10 new destinations in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, Kannan said. [FULL STORY]