![]() ![]() "Bus operators could allow a full refund on cancellation of tickets because there are some people who panic buy, which leads to these tickets being wasted when no one can use them. He said: "It would be good for Causeway Link to be more transparent by issuing queue numbers, which they did initially (for bookings in December). The Malaysian, whose family lives in Kuala Lumpur, started queueing two hours before tickets went on sale. A total of 1,080 tickets were available each day from Feb 1 to Feb 6.Ĭustomers on Facebook reported long waiting times, with some saying they encountered technical glitches such as having their bookings switched to the wrong route.Īmong those in line was Singapore Management University student Tan Ke Wei, 29, who hoped to snag a ticket from Johor Baru to Singapore on Feb 6 - when the Chinese New Year break ends. She added that the demand is high but the company is not allowed to release more tickets, as stipulated by the Government. They have yet to lift the measure.Ī Causeway Link spokesman said more than half of the tickets for sale on Monday were sold within an hour. The authorities also temporarily halved quotas for the number of travellers allowed to cross the Causeway under the land VTL from Jan 21. Singapore on Dec 22 last year suspended the sale of new VTL tickets for travel into the Republic or Malaysia until Jan 20, in view of rising cases of infection globally due to the Omicron variant of Covid-19. Tickets by Transtar Travel, which went on sale last week, have also been snapped up.Ĭauseway Link and Transtar Travel are the only two bus operators plying the route under the Malaysia-Singapore land VTL. The tickets for trips on the first six days of February - including the first day of Chinese New Year on Feb 1 - were up for grabs at 10am on Monday (Jan 10). SINGAPORE, Jan 10 (The Straits Times/ANN): All 6,480 tickets sold by bus operator Causeway Link under the Malaysia-Singapore land vaccinated travel lane (VTL) were snapped up within hours on Monday (Jan 10) as people made plans to cross the border for the coming Chinese New Year.
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