American on a 90 day tourist stay in Singapore. I came back in January and have been completely caught off-guard by the unprecedented global crisis. My partner is Singaporean (unmarried), and I've been visiting her for the past year and a half on multiple visits/trips to Singapore. I don't want to travel at all right now considering the dangers and the advise of almost everyone on the planet not to travel at this time, but my 90 day visa-free stay in Singapore expires in mid-April and I'm very worried about it expiring to say the least. I've already tried booking a few flights with SQ through United's MileagePlus. Each flight has been cancelled. Every time I realized a flight I booked got canceled it's felt so dejected, and I didn't even get a notice by e-mail or any other notification. At this point, I'm afraid anything I book that gets cancelled and also the airline won't refund easily. That is what happened the other day with United MileagePlus. So I'm thinking it would be safest to book directly with SQ, the problem is I show zero tickets available on the SQ web site for any dates in April that I try searching.
Personally, I've actually been overseas for much of the last several years. I am only a U.S passport holder, and I am a U.S resident, but I do not have a "home" per say in the U.S to come home to and only one family member who I know (broken childhood). Before the global crisis I was planning to go back to the U.S in March via Japan and start over and find a new home. I wanted to also finish my university degree (though all school is cancelled until at least June?). Given the unprecedented "lockdown" orders in the U.S and the "once-in-a-lifetime" global crisis "not seen since WW2", things changed rapidly so there was almost no time to prepare.. my head is still spinning. Almost every country has closed their borders except Japan. I also had back-up plans and back-up plans for back-up plans, but now all of those back-ups are not even possible because neighboring countries have closed their doors to everyone.
I still have a flight from Japan to the U.S for the end of April (booked months ago) as well as friends in Japan. If I can get to Japan it makes by far the most sense. Having said that, I have been in "fear of flying" therapy / programs for a several years. Through practice I generally feel comfortable (not too many panic attacks) with 6 - 10 hours of flying. I have kept flights to Singapore within the 6 - 10 hour range in recent years by doing Vancouver, Canada -> Tokyo -> Taiwan -> Singapore, etc. I don't know if I'm mentally prepared for a 17 hour flight across the Pacific. I've worked with a therapist, but there isn't really a magical cure for this problem unfortunately. I guess it doesn't matter though because 97% of SQ flights have been cancelled anyways, including most of the long direct ones to the U.S.
I have combed through SQ's flight cancellations lists the past couple days:
https://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/s...t/?id=jmjgoyqg
I made my own list from the latest cancellation updates. However, I'm getting really confused. Every time I search on SQ's web site for dates that should be available, and end up finding nothing.. no flights and no tickets. I have tried searching for many dates in April for the SIN - KIX and SIN - NHD routes, and U.S flights too. However, when I search for these routes on any date in April, the SQ web site shows that no flights are available. I don't know why it is that SQ is not showing me anything available? Does it mean the flights are all cancelled or all full?
I have also tried searching the United MileagePlus portal frequently. A week ago, it showed virtually every date available for SIN -> HND, for example, but now when I search now it shows zero dates available for any dates in April. Ideally, I need to fly from SIN -> KIX, though SIN - HND works too. Same situation when I checked SIN - SFO and SIN - LAX. It shows no tickets available.