Originally Posted by djsflynn

Just to clarify - by 'inbound PCR', do you mean the test you must take in SYD within 48 hours of your SYD-SIN flight, or the on-arrival test at Changi? I'm assuming the later.

On my press trip a few weeks back we had two people in there group who were on the ground for only a few days – arrived into Singapore around 2pm Monday, flew out around 12.45am Thursday – and they were both able to have their Changi on-arrival test also serve as their pre-departure (before flying back to SYD) test, because the pre-departure test must be done with 72 hours (so they had a bit more than 12 hours to spare within that 72-hour 'window').

So that aspect is certainly do-able.

But as others here have noted, you must have some form of accommodation (with its own bathroom, by memory) booked where you can self-isolate until getting a negative result from your on-arrival Changi PCR test, so chilling at the SilverKris Lounge won't cut it. And after leaving the airport to get tested (the testing is done in a temporary facility just outside T3) I can't imagine you would be allowed back in for your flight even if you showed them a negative result from your pre-departure (SYD-SIN) flight.

I'd suggest that a day&night stopover at SIN would meet your needs, but if you just wanted the turnaround, then perhaps 9V-SKS can wait until sometime in 2022 when things have calmed down, restrictions are less stringent and you're able to do one of those 'just like the old days' turns.