| Description | Singapore Airlines Limited is the national airline of Singapore, and the leading and founding entity of the Singapore Airlines Group of companies. One of Asia’s most influential and successful airlines, it has a presence in most parts of Asia and Oceania, as well as having major operations in Europe and North America.
Operational members of the Singapore Airlines Group, such as its regional and wholly-owned subsidiary, Silkair, manage flights to secondary cities with smaller capacity requirements, particularly those in Southeast Asia, China and India. Since 2001, air freight operations have also been hired off to a separate subsidiary, Singapore Airlines Cargo, which took over the entire freighter fleet from SIA, as well as management of the cargo holds in passenger-cargo aircraft. A more recent addition was the low-cost carrier Tiger Airways, which marked the group’s entry into the low-cost segment of the aviation industry.
Collectively, Singapore Airlines Group is the world’s second largest carrier by market capitalisation, second only to Southwest Airlines of the United States. In addition, Singapore Airlines ranks amongst the top 15 airline carriers worldwide in terms of revenue passenger kilometres according to Air Transport World. |
