Travelling in a time of coronavirus

The mostly-deserted Changi Airport Terminal 4 due to cancelled flights on March 20, 2020. ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN
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SINGAPORE - I always ask, at airport check-in counters, if the flight will be full.

Reclining on an empty row of seats during a red-eye is the poor man's version of business class but, in more than a decade of travelling, I can count on one hand the number of times this has happened to me.

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