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Singapore conditionally okays SIA-Malaysia Airlines partnership
Singapore’s competition watchdog has conditionally approved a wide-ranging commercial partnership between Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines.
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United Airlines adds codeshares with Singapore Airlines
United Airlines will expand its codeshare agreement with Singapore Airlines to include routes to 19 additional cities in the USA and Asia-Pacific region.
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SIA Group sees traffic leap in March as restrictions ease
Singapore Airlines Group expects to operate at 61% its pre-pandemic capacity by May, as its carriers see a “significant increase” in traffic following the easing of travel restrictions.
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Air France-KLM and other carriers lose legal bid to cut cargo cartel fines
Air France-KLM and a number of other operators have lost a legal bid to challenge fines imposed on them by the European Commission over participation in a pricing cartel for the airfreight market. But the European Union General Court ruling also partly annuls the Commission’s decision concerning several other airlines, ...
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Signs of life in Asia-Pacific but still with pain points
The Asia-Pacific region is starting to open up for air travel, but travel restrictions still impact key markets, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brings additional challenges
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Airbus long-haul activity weakens but A220 sales prove buoyant
Airbus’s long-haul orders sank further into negative territory during February, although strong single-aisle sales – particularly for the A220 – left the airframer with positive net orders for the first two months of the year. Twenty A330-900s assigned to unidentified customers have been removed, Airbus’s latest backlog figures reveal. Although ...
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Singapore Airlines posts first quarterly profit since pandemic
Singapore Airlines Group posted a net profit of S$85 million ($63 million) for the three months ending December 2021, as the opening of international travel lanes during the quarter helped it out of the red for the first time since the pandemic.
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SIA firms up A350 freighter commitments
Singapore Airlines has confirmed its order for seven Airbus A350 freighters, which will replace its fleet of Boeing 747-400 cargo jets.
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Analysis
Singapore Airlines picks up the pace in a world transformed
Singapore Airlines remains a national icon with strong government support and a disciplined management team, but the post-pandemic world promises new challenges.
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SIA Group maintains capacity outlook as December traffic hits new high
Singapore Airlines and low-cost unit Scoot will maintain passenger capacity through February, despite a tightening of travel restrictions in recent months following a spike in coronavirus cases.
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Analysis
Asia-Pacific set to enter third year of international travel woes as Omicron hits
This week provided has provided a reminder of how fragile the Covid-19 recovery is the Asia-Pacific region, where an already tentative return of international travel is being hit by the spread of Omicron variant of Covid-19.
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In depth
How far through the crisis are Asia-Pacific’s biggest airlines?
Airlines in Asia-Pacific paradoxically, are both among the hardest hit yet also the most profitable since the crisis hit. No region’s international passenger business has been harder by the pandemic than Asia-Pacific’s airlines, as international borders have remained all but shut and only started reopening in the last quarter of ...
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SIA orders seven A350 freighters, as 747s exit fleet from 2025
Singapore Airlines will be the first airline to operate the Airbus A350 freighter, after it committed to seven examples, with a further five options
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Singapore Airlines cuts half-year losses as travel lanes, cargo lift demand
Singapore Airlines Group narrowed its half-year losses on the back of a significant revenue uplift, as it anticipates a continued rise in travel demand in the near-term, with more countries easing border restrictions.
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SIA expects capacity uptick by year-end as travel lanes lift September traffic
Singapore Airlines Group expects to operate at 37% pre-pandemic capacity by the end of the year, amid an increase in passenger traffic following Singapore’s limited border reopening to fully-vaccinated travellers.
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Singapore Airlines to restore A380 flights with London route
Singapore Airlines is to start returning Airbus A380s to service with the re-introduction of the double-deck type on the London Heathrow route. The 471-seat aircraft, configured in four classes, will be redeployed to the UK capital from 19 November, the carrier states, serving one of its daily non-stop services. “This ...
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SIA exhausts S$8.8 billion funds from 2020 rights issue
Singapore Airlines has fully utilised the S$8.8 billion ($6.54 billion) in gross proceeds from a June 2020 rights issue.
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Low activity might have lulled pilots before A350 took off without clearance
Investigators have suggested that low levels of airport traffic could have reduced the alertness of an Airbus A350 crew before the aircraft took off without clearance from Barcelona. The Singapore Airlines A350 (9V-SMU), operating to Milan Malpensa as part of an onward service to Singapore on 24 October last year, ...
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Singapore Airlines narrows quarterly loss as revenue ticks upward
Singapore Airlines Group narrowed its first-quarter losses on the back of revenue increase, though it warns that new coronavirus variants and fresh infection waves could dampen recovery momentum.
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Asia-Pacific ‘recognising failure of zero-Covid approach’: IATA chief
Countries in the Asia-Pacific region that have sought to eliminate Covid-19 entirely are beginning to accept that such an approach is not sustainable, in the view of IATA director general Willie Walsh.