Iloilo (ILO) to Singapore (SIN) is a Western Visayas medium-haul corridor, launched April 2025 by Scoot, joined by Cebu Pacific. Around 11 combined weekly departures and a 3.7-hour block. Fares are lowest off-peak. Game-changer ito for Iloilo, Bacolod, at Antique-based kabayan working sa Singapore — walang NAIA o CEB connection na hassle.
Route at a glance
11 one-way departures a week are catalogued on ILO–SIN, flown by Cebu Pacific and Scoot, with a scheduled block of 3.7 hours. The cheapest one-way in our cache on 2026-08-02 was ₱4,366. 11 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 2 carriers on file.
Scoot launched Apr 14 2025.
- Distance & duration: ~3.7 hours nonstop, ILO to SIN.
- Carriers nonstop: Cebu Pacific (5J), Scoot (TR).
- Frequency: ~11 weekly combined departures.
- OFW corridor: Yes — Iloilo-Bacolod-Antique kabayan to Singapore.
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Best time to book
₱4,366 was the cheapest ILO–SIN one-way in this site’s fare cache on 2026-08-02. It is a cache floor for one date and fare class, not a held quote. 11 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 2 carriers on file.
That ₱4,366 is a cache reading, not a quote, and the difference is worth stating plainly. It is the lowest one-way price the fare feed returned for ILO–SIN at the moment it was polled, for one specific departure date, in one specific fare class. It is a single one-way observation rather than an average, and it is not held: the inventory behind it is thin and often gone within the day. Three things it also excludes: checked baggage where the carrier sells a bags-free base fare, seat selection, and any change or refund flexibility. Treat it as the floor of the range you should expect to see, then compare the all-in total once the bag you actually need is added back.
Cheapest pockets are late January through early March and mid-May to August (Singapore monsoon trough). Avoid F1 weekend (mid-September), Chinese New Year (late Jan-Feb), and Dec 15-Jan 5, kasi domestic-helper kabayan plus tourism demand pushes fares up sharply. Book 8-12 weeks out po for tipid pricing. Scoot launched promo fares as low as PHP 5,500 one-way during route inauguration; check ang Scoot KrisFlyer accruals. Tuesday and Wednesday departures are often cheaper than weekend departures.
Carriers compared
2 carriers — Cebu Pacific and Scoot — are catalogued nonstop on ILO–SIN, filing about 11 one-way departures a week. All carry 0 kg economy checked baggage. ₱4,366 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02.
What each operator brings to this pair:
- Cebu Pacific (5J) — no global alliance; hubs MNL/CEB/CRK/DVO/ILO; 0 kg economy checked.
- Scoot (TR) — alliance none (SIA group); hubs SIN; 0 kg economy checked. Cebu Pacific sit outside a global alliance, which matters at exactly one moment: a disruption. An alliance partner can usually be rebooked onto without a new ticket, an unaligned carrier needs an interline agreement to do the same thing, and if neither exists you are buying a fresh seat at walk-up price.
| Feature | Cebu Pacific (5J) | Scoot (TR) |
|---|---|---|
| Base baggage | 0 kg (paid bundle) | 0 kg (paid bundle) |
| OFW uplift | OFW prepaid bundles | OFW pre-paid bundles |
| Frequency ex-ILO | ~4 weekly | ~7 weekly |
| OFW friendliness | Mid — Tagalog crew, bundle-driven | High — KrisFlyer accrual via SIA group |
Fare bracket (peso-first)
₱4,366 was the cheapest ILO–SIN one-way in this site’s fare cache on 2026-08-02. It is a cache floor for one date and fare class, not a held quote. 11 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 2 carriers on file.
Entry rules for a Philippine passport in Singapore
1 rule governs entry here for a Philippine passport: Visa not required for a Philippine passport, at Free (no visa), for a maximum stay of the period granted on arrival (shown on your e-pass). Checked 2026-10-23.
- Singapore — Visa not required for a Philippine passport; fee Free (no visa); max stay The period granted on arrival (shown on your e-Pass). Submit the SG Arrival Card before arrival; it is not a visa. Checked 2026-10-23. Official source
Two things this table does not cover, and they are the ones that strand people. A visa grants permission to apply for entry — the officer at the border still decides, and a return or onward ticket plus proof of funds is what that decision usually turns on. And a visa for your destination says nothing about the countries you transit: several major hubs require their own transit visa or a same-terminal, same-ticket connection to be exempt, and the exemption is lost the moment you have to collect a bag and check in again. Visa rules change frequently. Use this as a starting reference only; verify with the destination’s embassy or official immigration portal before booking. For OFW employment visas, follow the DMW deployment process — that is separate from tourist/visit visas.
- Low (Feb-Mar, May-Aug).
- Mid (Apr, late Sep-late Nov).
- Peak (F1, CNY, Dec 15-Jan 5).
OFW & travel notes
ILO–SIN is an OFW route. Departure clearance is a Department of Migrant Workers process, separate from anything the airline controls. 11 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 2 carriers on file.
Two separate systems meet at the gate on an OFW corridor and it helps to keep them apart. The airline owns the ticket, the seat and the baggage allowance. The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Philippines owns your right to leave as a worker — the Overseas Employment Certificate, the record of a licensed recruiter, the contract that the immigration officer is checking against. An airline cannot fix a documentation problem and will not refund a fare because you were offloaded over one; that is a separate process with its own timelines. The practical order of operations is therefore: settle the DMW paperwork first, then buy the ticket around the date it clears, then claim the baggage uplift at check-in with the same documents in hand. Book the other way round and the cheapest fare you found becomes the most expensive change fee you have paid.
Kabayan from Iloilo, Bacolod, Antique, at Negros Occidental — domestic helpers, retail staff, F&B, healthcare — sulit ang direct ILO-SIN kasi single-ticket walang NAIA o CEB feeder. Both 5J at TR ay LCC kaya bundle dapat para sa balikbayan box; advance pre-paid baggage bundles cheaper than airport-counter pricing. Always carry IPA letter (employment pass approval) at OEC — Iloilo Immigration Counter spot-checks first-timers. SIN has SG Arrival Card (SGAC) requirement online — fill out within 3 days of arrival. Paano kung delayed? Scoot rebooks within SIA group; 5J has ASEAN-wide options.
Singapore as an arrival point
4 facts identify the arrival airport on this pair: SIN is Singapore Changi International Airport (SIN/WSSS); the local currency is SGD; region Southeast Asia; OFW relevance rated high. 11 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 2 carriers on file.
On arrival you are landing at Singapore Changi International Airport, ICAO WSSS, serving Singapore, Singapore. Visa-free entry; large OFW + skilled migrant base; Scoot recently added DVO and ILO. Across the whole Philippine market, Singapore Airlines, Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Scoot and Jetstar Asia are the carriers on record as serving Singapore from home — a wider set than the ones flying this particular pair, which is why a Manila routing sometimes opens options Iloilo does not have. Worth checking before you compare two prices: the code is an airport, not a city. Where a city has more than one airport, the low fare is often into the outlying field, and the road time and taxi fare can wipe out the difference. Check which airport your fare actually lands at before you compare two prices, and if you are connecting onward from a different airport in the same city, treat that as a separate journey with its own buffer — no airline protects a connection that involves a taxi.
Delays and cancellations: what actually applies on ILO–SIN
2 rulebooks cover ILO–SIN from the Philippine side: the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Air Passenger Bill of Rights, which governs the departure from a Philippine airport, and the Montreal Convention 1999, which caps liability for delay and baggage. Singapore may operate its own scheme for departures from its airports; this page does not track it.
None of the statutory compensation schemes this site sources — EU261, UK261, the Saudi GACA regulation, Canada’s APPR and the US DOT consumer rules — reaches ILO–SIN. Read that as a statement about our source list, not as a finding that Singapore has no rules of its own: states routinely regulate departures from their own airports, and the civil aviation authority of Singapore is the body to check before you conclude that nothing applies. What definitely does apply in both directions is the Montreal Convention 1999, which caps a carrier’s liability for delay and for baggage that is damaged, delayed or lost. Montreal reimburses proven loss up to a cap; it pays no fixed sum for the inconvenience itself, so keep receipts rather than counting hours.
On the Manila end, a flight departing a Philippine airport is covered by the Air Passenger Bill of Rights administered by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which obliges the carrier to offer rebooking or a refund and to provide amenities as a delay lengthens. It is a service and refund standard rather than a compensation tariff, so the outcome is rebooking, a refund and amenities rather than a set payment.
FAQ
6 questions below draw only on the route, carrier and fare data this project keeps for ILO–SIN. Anything that is a cached floor rather than a bookable price says so, and rules that fail in specific situations are answered with those situations named.
Checked baggage and the OFW uplift on ILO–SIN
0 kg is the smallest economy checked allowance among the carriers catalogued on ILO–SIN, and 0 kg the largest.
Checked allowance on this pair (confirm with the airline before booking):
- Cebu Pacific — 0 kg economy base, no OFW uplift on record.
- Scoot — 0 kg economy base, no OFW uplift on record.
The uplift is the part people get wrong, so here is where it does not reach. It is granted to a person under a programme, not written into a fare class, and the desk issues it against paperwork — an OEC or OFW Pass and, usually, the employment contract. Book a bags-free base fare on a low-cost carrier and there is no base allowance for the uplift to sit on top of. Book the domestic feeder as a separate ticket and the uplift does not follow the bag onto it. Fly a segment operated by a partner airline under a codeshare and the operating carrier’s own rules apply, not the one whose code is on your ticket. And the allowance is per passenger, not per booking — you cannot pool it across a family unless the airline’s own pooling rule says so. Verify the number at booking; excess bought at the airport is priced per kilo and is the most expensive kilo you will ever buy.
What is the cheapest Iloilo to Singapore fare on record here? ₱4,366 one-way — the lowest price the fare feed returned for ILO–SIN when this route was last polled on 2026-08-02. That is the minimum of one record for one route, not of the whole cache: a floor for a single date and fare class, not a held quote, and it excludes checked baggage where the carrier sells it separately.
Can I claim delay compensation on ILO–SIN? Not under any scheme this site sources. The fallback is the carrier’s conditions of carriage plus Montreal Convention 1999 liability limits, and Singapore’s own civil aviation authority is worth checking for departures from its airports. Separately, a departure from a Philippine airport is covered by the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Air Passenger Bill of Rights, which mandates rebooking, refunds and amenities but sets no fixed cash scale.
Magkano ang ticket Iloilo to Singapore? Fares move every week. The fare observation on this page shows the cheapest cached fare and the date it was found — use it as a reference, then check current fares before booking.
Visa-free ba ang Pinoy sa Singapore? Oo po — visa-free; ICA sets the stay on arrival. OFW kabayan use employment pass.
May direct flight ba galing Iloilo? Oo po — 5J at TR fly ~11 combined weekly since April 2025, around 3.7 hours.
Anong airline ang pinaka-sulit? TR cheapest, KrisFlyer accrual; 5J Tagalog crew. Pareho LCC.
Related guides on this site
- Manila to Singapore flights →
- Cebu to Singapore flights →
- Iloilo International Airport (ILO) →
- OFW flights complete guide →
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