Singapore Airlines

Singapore Airlines Limited (Abbreviated: SIA; Chinese: ???????, Pinyin: X?nj?ap? Hángk?ng G?ngs?, abbreviated: ??) {{airline codes|SQ|SIA|Singapore}} {{sgx|S55}} 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.

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Chinese - Pinyin - National airline - Singapore - Singapore Airlines Group - Asia - Oceania - Europe - North America

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Operational members of the Singapore Airlines Group, such as its regional and whole-owned subsidiary, Silkair manages flights to secondary cities with smaller capacity requirements, particularly those in Southeast Asia, China and India, paying particular attention to the needs of business and leisure travellers. Since 2001, air freight operations were also 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 low-cost Tiger Airways, which marked the group's maiden entry into the low-cost segment of the aviation industry.

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Silkair - Southeast Asia - China - India - 2001 - Singapore Airlines Cargo - Low-cost - Tiger Airways

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Collectively, Singapore Airlines Group is the world's second largest carrier by market capitalisation, only trailing behind Southwest Airlines of USA. In addition, Singapore Airlines ranks amongst the global top 15 in terms of revenue passenger kilometres according to Air Transport World.

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Southwest Airlines - Revenue - Passenger - Kilometre

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