Chitchat It's Official! Sinkies to Pay At Least $10 Surcharge To Use Changi Airport! FTs Pay Less!

[JohnTan]

Passengers flying out of Changi may soon have to pay between $10 and $15 extra, The Sunday Times understands, as part of a new tax being mooted to help pay for a major airport expansion, involving the building of Terminal 5.

Transit passengers could be charged about half the amount.

The tax, which could be imposed from later this year, is expected to be on top of the $34 departure charge ($6 for transit passengers), comprising a passenger service fee, a security tax and a levy collected by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS).

The new tax, first reported by The Sunday Times last month, is to help pay for major works in Changi East to help cement Singapore's air hub status, from the building of mega passenger terminal T5, set to open around 2030, to a third runway. It also includes ground improvement works at the over 1,000ha site and the building of massive drains and tunnels, some of which will move bags and people between T5 and the current airport.

Passengers will not be alone in bearing higher charges. Fees for airlines, including parking and landing fees, are expected to increase by about 30 per cent, said sources.

The total bill for Changi East is unclear, but it is expected to dwarf the billions spent so far - on T4, commercial development Jewel, which opens next year, and the multiple upgrades of the other three terminals in the last two decades.

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/changi-airport-users-may-have-to-pay-10-to-15-extra

 

[rectmobile]

This is what stupid voters voted for. Enjoy your high price.

 

[Agoraphobic]

High price is the result of high density living. The gahment has little to do with this. It should be their priority to do something about it. Singapore's shortage of land, and living within those constraints is certainly a bummer. The voters are the ones who have to live with.

Cheers!

This is what stupid voters voted for. Enjoy your high price.

 

[tanwahtiu]

No one or world ask them to build new T5.

This is what happen when u hv a CAQ leader.

 

[Agoraphobic]

Ah Loong is doing the best he can, or is capable of? What can he do? Also, it is matter more of policy than leadership efficacy.

Cheers!

 

[chonburifc]

Sinking land will never, and can never be the air hub. KLIA and Suvarnhabhumi are the new hubs. Many travellers and holiday makers already skip sinking land liaoz. So please continue to day dream.

 

[eatshitndie]

Sinking land will never, and can never be the air hub. KLIA and Suvarnhabhumi are the new hubs. Many travellers and holiday makers already skip sinking land liaoz. So please continue to day dream.

every time i fly to the region i have to stop in sin to enjoy peeing and shitting there. restrooms there are clean, smell good, and have a great view of the tarmac. it's green with plants too. plus i need the squat toilet to squeeze every shit out.

 

[bobby]

Population of 5.6m with no domestic air services and yet you need an airport with 5 terminals.

Obviously to faciliate foreigners...but asking singaporeans to pay.

Better option is that Changi Airport sell shares for each terminal to Singaporeans and end of it Singaporeans get some returns, if any.

 

[JohnTan]

Paying $15 each time we use Changi Airport is a small price to pay if that is what it takes to make Singapore great again.

Population of 5.6m with no domestic air services and yet you need an airport with 5 terminals.

Obviously to faciliate foreigners...but asking singaporeans to pay.

Better option is that Changi Airport sell shares for each terminal to Singaporeans and end of it Singaporeans get some returns, if any.

 

[ToaPehGong]

Did they come up with a table showing progressive increase in this tax just like our CPF minimum sum? Long live PAP

 

[Wunderfool]

Will this stop Sinkies from flying out of Singapore ?

Each year, Singaporeans spent millions of dollars overseas. Only if these dollars are spent here, it will be more than enough to fund the airport expansion.

 

[Truth_Hurts]

Just take taxi or Uber or grab to the airport. Drive n park n flyoff from Changi airport for fuck?

 

[bobby]

Paying $15 each time we use Changi Airport is a small price to pay if that is what it takes to make Singapore great again.

It's very funny that you said "again".....

 

[greedy and cunning]

Paying $15 each time we use Changi Airport is a small price to pay if that is what it takes to make Singapore great again.

ah johnny boy tan ,
u got read properli or not
it is paying $15 EXTRA.
an airport can make sillypoore great again ? how so ?
asking passengers to chip in to build something that belongs
to garberment which is the sole owner and benefactor
is a rip off.
y the scums dont say collecting COE is to help
build better roads to make sillypoore great again ?

 

[bobby]

Passport so powderful...airport so beautiful.

But, alas, now must pay extra to use passport and airport.

Become LPPL...no?

 

[rectmobile]

High price is the result of high density living. The gahment has little to do with this. It should be their priority to do something about it. Singapore's shortage of land, and living within those constraints is certainly a bummer. The voters are the ones who have to live with.

Cheers!

They don't have to build a 5th terminal. They chose to and force people to pay for it. That is NOT called high density living.

 

[eatshitndie]

They don't have to build a 5th terminal. They chose to and force people to pay for it. That is NOT called high density living.

as predicted earlier surcharge will be $69 for the 6.9th terminal. they need to continually build and renew to keep up with gdp growth (and cronies happy).

 

[KanTouKi]

Fuck lah. Sinkieland is fucking pro-foreigners. Pappies Huat Ah !!!

 

[zhihau]

S$10-15 is nothing, you'll still see Sinkies flying everywhere every year. Good move!

 

[JHolmesJr]

sad...no debate about anything. just the blunt end of a hammer.