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KF Seetoh posts photos of empty Shake Shack and A&W at Jewel Changi, writes, “Joo Chiat more happening than Jewel”
Singapore — Has the Jewel lost its shine so quickly? In a country where lining up in queues for popular establishments is a national pastime, food maven and Makansutra Founder KF Seetoh showed photos on his Facebook account of how seemingly empty the much-ballyhooed fast-food restaurants Shake Shack and A&W are.
The food guru even made a joke about A&W, which he said stood for “Anybody Want?”
And to think that these establishments only opened at Jewel Changi on April 17.
On Wednesday morning, May 22, Mr Seetoh wrote on Facebook, “The pre-opening line at the Shake has slacked to kosong n A&W stands for Anybody Want? The 24 hr food hall is there to serve some overpromised kpi n i did not even know there is a food court hidden within the food hall. I think now Joo Chiat more happening than Jewel la. A stall manager said they, like else where get the usual lunch crowd but picks up only on weekends.
Did someone over rara on promises at Jewel.”
Answering some of the commenters who said that perhaps it was too early and the restaurants were not open yet, Mr Seetoh said he took the photos at 9:15 am and was referring to the “pre-opening” queues, which were, surprisingly, absent.
He made the following point, “The pre opening qs (queues) are gone. The usual crowds appear closer to 10+. If nobody at some hrs..why make them open 24/7 in these depressed manpower conditions.”
Many netizens, however, recounted their recent experiences that the lines in these places have still been very long.
Mr Seetoh said he was glad to hear that crowds still come during peak hours.
Much has been made of the long lines snaking over Jewel Changi since it opened, especially for these two fast-food places. But some netizens pointed out the exceedingly high prices for food stalls at Jewel Changi.
One netizen, however, posited the possibility that Mr Seetoh may have an agenda for posting photos of the absence of queues at Shake Shack and A&W.
The food guru, a prominent Singaporean food consultant, writer and TV host is a long champion of hawkers and their contribution to the country’s culture and culinary legacy.
He made the news earlier this year for highlighting the woes of hawkers at Chinatown Complex, who stood to lose their livelihood for the two months that saw the complex shut while needed repairs were carried out.
In a Facebook post Mr Seetoh wrote, “These chinatown hawkers have to close for 3 months for renovations with no alternative spots to conduct business. They are just left hanging on in the lurch and running on empty It’s like your boss telling you to take a 2 month no pay leave cause there’s office renovations.”
However, instead of merely airing the hawkers’ gripes, he also provided some possible solutions to the problem.
“I sense some of the older hawkers may lose their rhythm and call it quits after the works. Toa Payoh Lor 7 hawker centre will also close for up to 3 months soon.
My first salvo, to those who want it- offer them a temp slot at the many empty hawker stalls around the island, even if it is a one or two month gig.
One other thing they can do is cook from home and work with delivery companies. Many still wanna eat their stuff out of habit or even necessity. It is allowed under home business schemes with NEA”, he added.
Singapore — Has the Jewel lost its shine so quickly? In a country where lining up in queues for popular establishments is a national pastime, food maven and Makansutra Founder KF Seetoh showed photos on his Facebook account of how seemingly empty the much-ballyhooed fast-food restaurants Shake Shack and A&W are.
The food guru even made a joke about A&W, which he said stood for “Anybody Want?”
And to think that these establishments only opened at Jewel Changi on April 17.
On Wednesday morning, May 22, Mr Seetoh wrote on Facebook, “The pre-opening line at the Shake has slacked to kosong n A&W stands for Anybody Want? The 24 hr food hall is there to serve some overpromised kpi n i did not even know there is a food court hidden within the food hall. I think now Joo Chiat more happening than Jewel la. A stall manager said they, like else where get the usual lunch crowd but picks up only on weekends.
Did someone over rara on promises at Jewel.”
Answering some of the commenters who said that perhaps it was too early and the restaurants were not open yet, Mr Seetoh said he took the photos at 9:15 am and was referring to the “pre-opening” queues, which were, surprisingly, absent.
He made the following point, “The pre opening qs (queues) are gone. The usual crowds appear closer to 10+. If nobody at some hrs..why make them open 24/7 in these depressed manpower conditions.”
Many netizens, however, recounted their recent experiences that the lines in these places have still been very long.
Mr Seetoh said he was glad to hear that crowds still come during peak hours.
Much has been made of the long lines snaking over Jewel Changi since it opened, especially for these two fast-food places. But some netizens pointed out the exceedingly high prices for food stalls at Jewel Changi.
One netizen, however, posited the possibility that Mr Seetoh may have an agenda for posting photos of the absence of queues at Shake Shack and A&W.
The food guru, a prominent Singaporean food consultant, writer and TV host is a long champion of hawkers and their contribution to the country’s culture and culinary legacy.
He made the news earlier this year for highlighting the woes of hawkers at Chinatown Complex, who stood to lose their livelihood for the two months that saw the complex shut while needed repairs were carried out.
In a Facebook post Mr Seetoh wrote, “These chinatown hawkers have to close for 3 months for renovations with no alternative spots to conduct business. They are just left hanging on in the lurch and running on empty It’s like your boss telling you to take a 2 month no pay leave cause there’s office renovations.”
However, instead of merely airing the hawkers’ gripes, he also provided some possible solutions to the problem.
“I sense some of the older hawkers may lose their rhythm and call it quits after the works. Toa Payoh Lor 7 hawker centre will also close for up to 3 months soon.
My first salvo, to those who want it- offer them a temp slot at the many empty hawker stalls around the island, even if it is a one or two month gig.
One other thing they can do is cook from home and work with delivery companies. Many still wanna eat their stuff out of habit or even necessity. It is allowed under home business schemes with NEA”, he added.
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Don't they build airports for travellers flying in and out of a city anymore? With minimum fuss and walking distance to the plane?
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Govt to impose new airport tax from July; passengers flying out of Changi to pay S$13.30 more
SINGAPORE — Passengers flying out from Changi Airport from July 1 will have to pay S$47.30 – or S$13.30 more – in departure charges, which includes a new tax levied to fund airport expansion.
The new Airport Development Levy (ADL) – chargeable at S$10.80 for departing passengers and S$3 for transit passengers – will be introduced to help fund airport developments, such as the new Terminal 5 and related infrastructure in Changi East, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) announced on Wednesday (Feb 28).
At the same time, Changi Airport Group (CAG) also said it will be increasing aeronautical charges for both passengers and airlines over the next six years, to fund the expansion and upgrading projects. The increase in fees – not applicable to transit passengers – will kick in at S$2.50 from July 1, and will go up by S$2.50 every year from April 1 next year to April 1, 2024, for all passengers who start their departures from Changi Airport.
Airlines, on the other hand, will see their landing, parking and aerobridge (LPA) fees go up by 1 per cent every year for six years.
The new fees mean departure charges will go up from the existing S$34 that passengers currently pay, made up of S$27.90 passenger service and security fee (PSSF) and S$6.10 aviation levy.
By 2024, or the sixth year of increase, the departure charges that passengers will have to pay will go up to S$62.30.
Transit passengers will also have to pay the ADL – chargeable at $3 tax each time they go through the airport – but they will be spared the spike in PSSF. This means transit charges will go up from existing S$6 to S$9 from July 1.
In their joint statement announcing the ADL, MOT and CAAS said that changes have been made to the Aviation Bill to introduce the new airport tax. This was tabled in Parliament on Wednesday.
In a separate statement, CAG said the last increase for the PSSF and LPA will be on April 2024, as that year marks the mid-point of the estimated construction phase of the Changi East project.
Any subsequent adjustments will be announced only after a review is conducted that month, said CAG.
Under the current regulatory regime, CAG said it has the "flexibility to set the amounts for the various aeronautical charges for up to 2030". It added that this is provided that the overall amount does not exceed the cap set by CAAS without elaborating further.
With the Changi East mega-project set to cost "tens of billions of dollars", contributions are also needed from airport users, namely passengers and airlines said MOT and CAAS. Thus, the need to impose the new airport tax and raise passenger service and security fee.
They noted that the Government will still foot "the majority" of the costs, and has to date invested over S$9 billion, with CAG being the next biggest contributor, with a total of S$3.6 billion committed to the project to date.
CAG also said that it will "commit a substantial portion of its reserves and future surpluses including earnings from its airport concessions to the development" and will take on a "significant amount of debt" to fund its contributions to the project. It did not give details on this.
As part of the project, a mega passenger Terminal 5 – to open in 2030 – as well as a third runway will be constructed. A massive network of tunnels and systems will also be constructed to allow the transfer of passengers and baggage between the new terminal and the current airport.
While Terminal 5, which is expected to eventually handle up to 70 million passengers a year – more than Terminals 1, 2 and 3 combined – is anticipated to be operational only in 2030, the third runway will be operational earlier, in the early 2020s.
With the mega-project underway, payments will have to be made for contracts already awarded and construction works that have been completed, said CAG. It added that land preparation works, development of a canal network to prevent flooding as well as works to extend the third runway are still ongoing.
"An earlier adjustment in aeronautical fees will help to avoid a steep escalation of fees at a later stage," said CAG.
Such a project is necessary to cater to the increasing growth in air traffic, said MOT and CAAS, as they noted that air traffic growth has averaged about 5.4 per cent annually over the last decade.
With Changi Airport receiving a record 62.2 million passengers last year, CAG said that passenger traffic is also expected to grow at about 3 to 4 per cent annually over the next 20 years.
According to its projections, CAG said the airport is expected to reach its handling capacity of 85 million passengers per year by the late 2020s. "Without further expansion, service standards may drop, with passengers experiencing delays."
Pointing out that Changi East is "our investment to secure Singapore's future", CAAS' director-general Kevin Shum noted: "At the same time, we want to plug into the growth that the region is experiencing, that's why we are doing all of these to ensure that Singapore remains the premium air hub for the region."
Singapore is not alone in raising charges to support growth plans for its airport.
In 2016, Hong Kong International Airport, which is building a third runway due to be completed in 2024, started collecting between HK$70 and HK$180 (S$12 and S$30) a traveller.
Similarly, airports in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Doha in Qatar also introduced a departure tax for travellers in 2016 – the equivalent of about S$13 – to help fund ongoing expansion projects.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) – the airline's most prominent trade body – reiterated its opposition on Wednesday to Singapore's decision to "pre-fund" new infrastructure projects.
"It is unfair to expect passengers and airlines to pay in advance for a facility they may or may not use in the future when the facility is ready," said Mr Conrad Clifford, IATA’s regional vice president, Asia Pacific. He also warned that the higher charges would hurt air travel and tourism, as well as the airlines.
Earlier this month, Senior Minister of State for Law and Finance Indranee Rajah said in Parliament that the Government has to look for the "most optimal way" to finance new mega projects, including Terminal 5, and would not rule out "different ways" of securing the funding and speading it out over the proper period of time.
In his recent Budget statement on Feb 19, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat also noted that the Government is considering providing guarantees for long-term borrowings undertaken by statutory boards and state-owned companies to build critical national infrastructure.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/changi-airport-charge-development
SINGAPORE — Passengers flying out from Changi Airport from July 1 will have to pay S$47.30 – or S$13.30 more – in departure charges, which includes a new tax levied to fund airport expansion.
The new Airport Development Levy (ADL) – chargeable at S$10.80 for departing passengers and S$3 for transit passengers – will be introduced to help fund airport developments, such as the new Terminal 5 and related infrastructure in Changi East, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) announced on Wednesday (Feb 28).
At the same time, Changi Airport Group (CAG) also said it will be increasing aeronautical charges for both passengers and airlines over the next six years, to fund the expansion and upgrading projects. The increase in fees – not applicable to transit passengers – will kick in at S$2.50 from July 1, and will go up by S$2.50 every year from April 1 next year to April 1, 2024, for all passengers who start their departures from Changi Airport.
Airlines, on the other hand, will see their landing, parking and aerobridge (LPA) fees go up by 1 per cent every year for six years.
The new fees mean departure charges will go up from the existing S$34 that passengers currently pay, made up of S$27.90 passenger service and security fee (PSSF) and S$6.10 aviation levy.
By 2024, or the sixth year of increase, the departure charges that passengers will have to pay will go up to S$62.30.
Transit passengers will also have to pay the ADL – chargeable at $3 tax each time they go through the airport – but they will be spared the spike in PSSF. This means transit charges will go up from existing S$6 to S$9 from July 1.
In their joint statement announcing the ADL, MOT and CAAS said that changes have been made to the Aviation Bill to introduce the new airport tax. This was tabled in Parliament on Wednesday.
In a separate statement, CAG said the last increase for the PSSF and LPA will be on April 2024, as that year marks the mid-point of the estimated construction phase of the Changi East project.
Any subsequent adjustments will be announced only after a review is conducted that month, said CAG.
Under the current regulatory regime, CAG said it has the "flexibility to set the amounts for the various aeronautical charges for up to 2030". It added that this is provided that the overall amount does not exceed the cap set by CAAS without elaborating further.
With the Changi East mega-project set to cost "tens of billions of dollars", contributions are also needed from airport users, namely passengers and airlines said MOT and CAAS. Thus, the need to impose the new airport tax and raise passenger service and security fee.
They noted that the Government will still foot "the majority" of the costs, and has to date invested over S$9 billion, with CAG being the next biggest contributor, with a total of S$3.6 billion committed to the project to date.
CAG also said that it will "commit a substantial portion of its reserves and future surpluses including earnings from its airport concessions to the development" and will take on a "significant amount of debt" to fund its contributions to the project. It did not give details on this.
As part of the project, a mega passenger Terminal 5 – to open in 2030 – as well as a third runway will be constructed. A massive network of tunnels and systems will also be constructed to allow the transfer of passengers and baggage between the new terminal and the current airport.
While Terminal 5, which is expected to eventually handle up to 70 million passengers a year – more than Terminals 1, 2 and 3 combined – is anticipated to be operational only in 2030, the third runway will be operational earlier, in the early 2020s.
With the mega-project underway, payments will have to be made for contracts already awarded and construction works that have been completed, said CAG. It added that land preparation works, development of a canal network to prevent flooding as well as works to extend the third runway are still ongoing.
"An earlier adjustment in aeronautical fees will help to avoid a steep escalation of fees at a later stage," said CAG.
Such a project is necessary to cater to the increasing growth in air traffic, said MOT and CAAS, as they noted that air traffic growth has averaged about 5.4 per cent annually over the last decade.
With Changi Airport receiving a record 62.2 million passengers last year, CAG said that passenger traffic is also expected to grow at about 3 to 4 per cent annually over the next 20 years.
According to its projections, CAG said the airport is expected to reach its handling capacity of 85 million passengers per year by the late 2020s. "Without further expansion, service standards may drop, with passengers experiencing delays."
Pointing out that Changi East is "our investment to secure Singapore's future", CAAS' director-general Kevin Shum noted: "At the same time, we want to plug into the growth that the region is experiencing, that's why we are doing all of these to ensure that Singapore remains the premium air hub for the region."
Singapore is not alone in raising charges to support growth plans for its airport.
In 2016, Hong Kong International Airport, which is building a third runway due to be completed in 2024, started collecting between HK$70 and HK$180 (S$12 and S$30) a traveller.
Similarly, airports in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Doha in Qatar also introduced a departure tax for travellers in 2016 – the equivalent of about S$13 – to help fund ongoing expansion projects.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) – the airline's most prominent trade body – reiterated its opposition on Wednesday to Singapore's decision to "pre-fund" new infrastructure projects.
"It is unfair to expect passengers and airlines to pay in advance for a facility they may or may not use in the future when the facility is ready," said Mr Conrad Clifford, IATA’s regional vice president, Asia Pacific. He also warned that the higher charges would hurt air travel and tourism, as well as the airlines.
Earlier this month, Senior Minister of State for Law and Finance Indranee Rajah said in Parliament that the Government has to look for the "most optimal way" to finance new mega projects, including Terminal 5, and would not rule out "different ways" of securing the funding and speading it out over the proper period of time.
In his recent Budget statement on Feb 19, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat also noted that the Government is considering providing guarantees for long-term borrowings undertaken by statutory boards and state-owned companies to build critical national infrastructure.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/changi-airport-charge-development
CAQ got no biz luck.... everything he touched turned disasters even 38OR orso tio kelong between siblings....
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