The carrier has 7 Boeing 747-400 freighters ready for the transportation of Covid vaccines, while its passenger aircraft fleet is also ready to be deployed to ramp up capacity.
Let alone schlepping to the airport and onto a parked plane for reheated food, there are people who can’t get enough of the aviation experience and are willing to shell out for it.
Pandemic-hit Singapore Airlines is trying novel ways to raise money, including using two A380 superjumbos parked at Changi Airport as temporary restaurants on 24 and 25 October.
A tour of the aircraft, parked at Changi Airport, will be available before lunch and customers will be able to watch the inflight entertainment channels during their meal.
Earlier this month, Singapore Airlines said it will cut about 4,300 jobs. The company had put staff on unpaid leave, and crew not flying stopped receiving flight allowances.
According to reports, the airline is planning flights that start and end at the same airport, and may offer staycations at Singapore's hotels, shopping vouchers & limousine rides.
Passenger traffic isn't expected to recover until 2024, which makes Singapore Airlines particularly vulnerable as it has no domestic market to fall back on.
A number of airlines, including Air India, British Airways, Lion Air and IndiGo have also suspended their flights as China struggles to contain the spread of the virus.
In the centuries to come, economist Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata will attain the importance we attach to the texts of Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhvacharya.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
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