Their cabin crew's taxi-hued, colour-blocked, T-shirt-based uniforms caused quite a buzz. Their slogan came from an online contest. And last month, they had Michael Jackson singing &lsquoBeat it&rsquo &mdash by way of a theme tune for their &lsquoYou Decide the Fare&rsquo campaign, which invited us to recruit our friends to drive their fares down ($88 one-way from Singapore to Gold Coast or Sydney). Singapore Air&rsquos kid sister Scoot sure seems a spunky kid &mdash with an April birthday. But it also makes us wonder if she&rsquos a prankster &mdash she promised business-class passengers economy prices for their pitched leather seats, two meals and overnight comfort kits. What&rsquos really smart is the stratification in coach class though &mdash the basic Scoot fare, branded Fly(), simply gets you a seat choose FlyBag to bring 15kg of checked baggage and pick FlyBagEat to get a hot meal too. The premium economy offering consists of S-t-r-e-t-ch seats &mdash that&rsquos four more inches of legroom. There&rsquos more add-ons, if you like &mdash rentable preloaded iPads, queue-free priority boarding... All these tall promises for a four-craft fleet connecting just three dots (Singapore, Sydney, Gold Coast, with probable future &rsquoports of call in China), and you bet we&rsquoll be looking to see if Scoot measures up at flyscoot.com.
