Scoot, the long-haul low-cost arm of Singapore Airlines, will not pursue new destinations in the Australian market nor add many more frequencies to its existing ones to ensure it helps maximise returns for its parent company, says Scoot chief executive Campbell Wilson.
Scoot, which has similar ties to Singapore's flag carrier as Jetstar does to Qantas, launched its first flights from Singapore to Melbourne on Sunday. It will fly the route five times a week throughout the year, moving up to daily in peak periods. Elsewhere in Australia, Scoot flies between its Singapore hub and Sydney, Perth and the Gold Coast using Boeing 787 aircraft, but never more than daily. 
Mr Wilson said additional destinations, such as Adelaide, Cairns and Darwin, were not on the radar because they were already well served by Singapore Airlines and its premium short-haul subsidiary, SilkAir, and could not support additional capacity from Scoot's all-widebody fleet.
He added there was no plan to move frequencies to Scoot's existing Australian destinations beyond daily given Singapore Airlines offered four or five flights a day to cities like Sydney and Melbourne.
"We have been quite prudent with our capacity going into Australia," he said. "There is really not a great deal of value for the group for Scoot to go double daily or triple daily if we have five or six flights a day [already as a group]. We see more value in opening new points in China and India and elsewhere."
Scoot has nine 787s but plans to take delivery of 11 more by 2019. The budget carrier expects to start flights to Guangzhou, China in   January, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in   May and two or three new destinations in India by the middle of next year.
Like Jetstar, Scoot now offers its customers the opportunity to earn frequent flyer points from its parent company through the purchase of additional bundles. Mr Wilson said some customers, primarily from Singapore and south-east Asia, were purchasing the bundles but far more were redeeming their points from Singapore Airlines's KrisFlyer???  loyalty program for cash vouchers usable on Scoot.
"If the points are converted into vouchers then the customer can apply them to whatever product and whatever date and whatever flight they want," he said. "It is proving popular. It means you are spending your points as if it was cash and it is completely unrestricted."
Mr Wilson said Scoot was also examining the opportunity to set up its own customer recognition program, as distinct from the KrisFlyer program, because it had many frequent flyers.
"At the moment we don't differentiate between people who have flown us one time or 30 times," he said. "The most frequent travellers are small business owners. We have a couple of people where even though we have been flying for just over three years, they have flown up nearly 100 times. Once we saw those statistics coming through it made us really realise these people were worthy of recognition and deserving of it."
Scoot offers a premium-economy-like ScootBiz product on its aircraft, and Mr Wilson said that had proven popular among its Australian customers given there were a large number of small and medium enterprise travellers heading to Asia as well as many retirees.
"In markets like China, people are not quite so familiar with the concept of a premium cabin on a low cost airline and a bit of education is needed," he said. "But in Australia it is very popular."