singapore air

Plastics in Airline Catering Raise Questions About Carbon Emissions

Sarah Enelow-Snyder, Skift

Airlines have a love-hate relationship with plastics, especially when it comes to food and beverage. Plastics pose a serious environmental threat, but at the same time they're lightweight and thereby help reduce carbon emissions. Can carriers tackle both of these problems at once?

4 months ago

New Airline Seatbacks Have Cameras That Can Potentially Spy On Passengers

David Koenig, Associated Press

Just because airlines seemingly aren't activating cameras in seatbacks doesn't mean they can't be abused. Or hacked.

7 months ago

Singapore Airlines Asks Employees for Ideas on Efficiencies During Business Revamp

Kyunghee Park, Bloomberg

Tapping into your own company's brain trust is a smart move. But job cuts might be looming — so no pressure to come up with a big company-saving idea.

2 years ago

Singapore Air Wants Some Flight Attendants To Take Unpaid Leave

Kyunghee Park, Bloomberg

Singapore Air is stuck between a rock and a hard place – it recently went on a plane-buying spree to help fuel its growth and remain competitive but that came at the expense of its employees.

2 years ago

Flyers Choose Cheap Over Champagne and That’s Bad for Singapore Air

Abhishek Vishnoi, Bloomberg

Singapore was able to compete with very hungry low-cost rivals, and it should be able to do the same with high-end rivals that are hitting some stumbling blocks of their own.

2 years ago

Singapore Airlines Faces Increased Competition and an Impending Debt Load

Abhishek Vishnoi, Bloomberg

Singapore Airlines' spending spree growing pains come as the carrier faces intense competition from low-cost and mainline carriers in Asia and encroaching gulf carriers seeking to gain market share in the region.

2 years ago

Singapore Air is Closely Watching Virgin Australia Developments

Angus Whitley and Kyunghee Park, Bloomberg

Singapore Airlines already owns low-cost carriers that serve China and India, its fastest-growing markets. Still, the carrier must decide if the much smaller Australian market is worth more investment than the giant Chinese and India markets.

3 years ago

Singapore Air Raises Virgin Australia Stake Amid Ownership Shuffle

Angus Whitley, Bloomberg

Consolidation and joint ventures in the airline sector are heating up. Earlier this week, Alaska Airlines announced it would acquire Virgin America and now, the ownership structure of Virgin Australia is up in the air. With Air New Zealand considering bowing out, is there an opening for current investors Singapore Air or Etihad to swoop in?

3 years ago

Singapore Airlines CEO on Its Multi-Brand Strategy for Winning in Asia

Dan Peltier, Skift

As Singapore Airlines celebrates getting one step closer to reentering the U.S. market with nonstop flights it isn't forgetting the markets that already demonstrate solid growth and demand. The Singapore Airlines Group is trying to appeal to every kind of flyer in Asia and it's betting on success in that region before expanding to the U.S. and elsewhere.

4 years ago

Second-Hand Superjumbo A380s Could Fill a Role in Low-Cost Carrier Fleets

Andrea Rothman, Bloomberg

Airbus is trying to inject some new life into its A380s now that several premium carriers plan on putting their planes out to pasture. If the price is right, low-cost carriers could reconfigure them for their own particular needs.

4 years ago