Travel is catching up at last

Back to busy days: Changi Airport handled 1.14 million passengers in March, the first time the figure climbed above one million since the start of the pandemic. — AFP

South-East Asia is finally, tentatively throwing off the shackles of Covid-19 and reopening for travel, with airlines filling an increasing number of seats as holiday-starved masses arrange overseas vacations for the first time in two years.

While the region lags other places such as North America and Europe that reopened sooner, the upward momentum gathered pace in April.