Asia’s 8th Largest Airlines - Singapore Airlines

Singapore was founded in 1947 as Malaysian Airways and its hub is the Singapore Changi Airport. Singapore Airline Limited Company has strong presence in the Southeast Asia market, East Asia market, Kangaroo Route market and also in South Asia markets. The Singapore Airline company also controls trans-Pacific flights which includes two of the longest non stop commercial flights which take place from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey and Los Angeles, California on the Airbus A340-500. The frequent flyer programs that it has initiated are KrisFlyer and PPS Club. Its member lounge is called the Silver Kris Lounge and its Alliance is named as Star Alliance.

The subsidiaries of Singapore Airlines include Singapore Airport Terminal Services, SIA Engineering Company, Silk Air, Singapore Airlines Cargo and Singapore Flying College. The fleet of Singapore Airlines has one hundred and one air crafts that comprises of seventy four orders and fifty nine options. Singapore Airline covers altogether sixty six destinations and is proud to have flights going to so many destinations. The company slogan of Singapore Airline is “a great way to fly” and it is true that you get to have a really good way when you are making use of Singapore Airline.

The headquarters of Singapore Airlines are in Singapore in the continent of Asia. SIA has some really interesting airline related businesses like the one that deals with aircraft handling and engineering. It possesses the whole subsidiary called Silk Air and controls regional flights to secondary cities with really smaller capacity requirements. Subsidiary Singapore Airlines Cargo controls and manages Singapore Airline Company’s dedicated and devoted freighter fleet and also operates the cargo holding capacity in the company’s passenger air plane.

Singapore Airlines Limited is known to be the world’s largest carrier by market capitalization. It comes in the top fifteen carriers as compared to the rest of the world according to the revenue passenger kilometers. Singapore Airline Limited Company is the eighth largest airline in the continent of Asia and it ranked sixth in the world for the international passengers carried. Singapore Airline Limited Company was ranked 17th in Fortune’s world’s most admired companies in the year 2007. It has built up a very strong and staunch brand name and it is more of a trend setter in the airline industries especially considering innovation, safety and also the excellence including the consistent profitability. It has received many awards many a times and is like an industry bellwether for the air plane purchases.

The Singapore Airline Company was Asia’s first and the world’s last airline to be accredited by IATA with the IOSA (IATA Operations Safety Audit). Singapore Airline Limited Company has also invested and capitalized in many other airlines to expand beyond its Singapore base. Although it has always failed in the attempts of doing and the results are many a times negative but this airline company still invested in the other companies. For example, it went into a tripartite alliance with the airlines commonly known as Delta Airlines and also Swiss Air but ended the partnership after a 10 year period. Similarly it purchases Air New Zealand in 2000 and Air New Zealand then had to be rescued from bankruptcy. There is more information available on this airline on different websites. Tickets can be bought from the representative offices and you can also visit the airline’s official website so to have the e-tickets.