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Flights to nowhere: On saving SIA, flying skills and Earth

Straits Times Facebook users suggested that flights to nowhere may be for maintaining pilot skills and planes, and not so much for making money for battered airline SIA. So eco-groups hoping to stop SIA from launching them by offering alternatives may be disappointed.

The house is on fire and needs to be saved - opposing camps debating the merits of no-destination flights agree on this. But one thinks the house is Singapore Airlines (SIA), which is battered by the Covid-19 crisis fallout, while the other thinks it is Earth facing a climate crisis.

Straits Times Facebook user Raymond Tan said: "So your house is on fire, but you ask the firemen not to put out the fire because the extinguisher in front of you has chemicals and ask them to think of another way. Meanwhile, your house is still burning. That's how relevant environmentalists sound right now."

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