It's officially that time of year when your Christmas and New Year break starts to feel like a distant memory and you realise you don't have a single holiday to look forward to (*screams internally*). Well, here's your chance to change that.
Scoot – the low-cost little sister of Singapore Airlines (SIA) – is here to help, slinging reduced-rate flights across its network from today (Tuesday, January 16) until Monday, January 22.
With flights starting at $190 to more than 55 destinations, Melburnians can line up a trip to Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, China, India, the Philippines, South Korea and Vietnam for a fraction of the price of a typical journey. So if you’ve been saving up, you can dedicate some of that holiday budget to to a shopping spree or cocktail by the pool.
Scoot’s top routes in its January sale include Osaka (with one-way flights starting from $345), Ho Chi Minh City (from $225) and Bangkok (from $215). If you're craving a Bali break you can travel to Denpasar or nearby Lombok for as little as $225, and if it's a Euro trip you've got your heart set on, you could hop over to Singapore for $190 and fly forth from there (perhaps with a brief stopover for a night or two in a sky-high hotel – not an unreasonable option with your extra spending money).
The sale is discounting more than 150,000 seats, and with airfares inclusive of 10kg of luggage, you won’t need to worry about coughing up for carrying extra.
You can learn more and snap up your thrifty trip over here.