SINGAPORE: The Singapore Flyer and Seletar Airport, which services charted flights, have fallen victim to the haze on Thursday.
Both were closed as precautionary safety measures.
Seletar Airport was closed on Thursday from 11am till 11pm, and may be extended subject to visibility conditions.
Singapore Flyer will reassess the situation Friday morning to decide when it will re-open.
Visitors with tickets can get a refund or opt to visit it again when it re-opens.
Tourist Angelian Merry said: “I feel so sad because the Singapore Flyer is closed… We came from Indonesia just to ride the Singapore Flyer and see the view.”
Chris Armand, a tourist from New Zealand, said: “To arrive in a place which is supposedly modern and very efficient and come to something like this is a complete shock. We’ve cut short our holiday. We were going to stay three days. We’re now only staying one.”
At Changi Airport, the haze completely blanketed the aerodrome, even as the air hub remained operational.
As a precaution, intervals between departing and arriving flights were doubled from a minute to two.
Two flights at Singapore’s other civilian airport at Seletar were diverted to Changi and Johor Bahru in Malaysia, and eight departures cancelled.
Kuah Kong Beng, director of air traffic services at Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, said: “Seletar is a visual environment airport. Aircraft that intend to land at the airport must have the runway visual. So during the haze, the visibility at Seletar has dropped to less than 1,500 metres, and the visibility is now a range between between 700 to about 1,200 metres and as a result we will not be able to accept arriving aircraft or departing aircraft.”
Meanwhile, Resorts World Sentosa said it had fewer visitors to its Adventure Cove Waterpark.
The integrated resort also tweaked the format of some shows due to the haze.
Tourism in Singapore takes a hit due to haze
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