Singapore Airlines

Singapore Airlines (SIA) is the national carrier of Singapore, based in Singapore Changi Airport. Founded in 1947 as "Malayan Airways", starting its first flight on 1 May 1947 with Airspeed Consul twin engined airplanes to operated the weekly schedule flights from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang.

Malayan Airways was renamed as "Malaysian Airlines" in 1963 after the creation of the Federation of Malaysia, and renamed again as "Malaysia-Singapore Airlines (MSA)" after Singapore separated from the Federation of Malaysia in 1965.

MSA was separated to 2 airline companies as "Singapore Airlines (SIA)" and "Malaysia Airlines (MAS)" in 1972, Singapore Airlines was growth up rapidly and purchased widebody aircrafts.

Singapore Airlines was the launched customer of the "Superjumbo" Airbus A380, the first aircraft (9V-SKA) was delivery in Oct, 2007.

Current Fleet

Manufacturer	Type	Registration	Thumbnail	Engines	Destinations	Passengers	Amount	Notes
Airbus	A330-343E	9V-STA - 9V-STT		Rolls Royce Trent 772	Asia Regional, Perth, Adelaide	285 (J30/Y255)	20	Replacing older SQx and SRx series A330s on regional routes. On lease until the airline's order for A350s are fulfilled.
Airbus	A340-541	9V-SGA - 9V-SGE		Rolls Royce Trent 553	Los Angeles & Newark	100 (All Business Class)	5	These aircrafts will be sold out at the end of 2013
Airbus	A380-841	9V-SKA - 9V-SKT		Rolls Royce Trent 970	London-Heathrow, Sydney, Tokyo-Narita, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Zurich	471 (R12/J60/Y399)	19 (0 on order)	9V-SKA operated the first revenue flight of an Airbus A380 on 25 Oct 2007.
Boeing	747-412	9V-SMU, 9V-SPA, 9V-SPE, 9V-SPJ, 9V-SPO, 9V-SPP, 9V-SPQ		Pratt & Whitley PW4056	Singapore-Frankfurt-New York JFK and Singapore-Tokyo Narita-Los Angeles	375 (P12/J50/Y313)	7	Being retired
Boeing	777-212ER	9V-SQA - 9V-SQN & 9V-SRA - 9V-SRQ		Rolls Royce Trent 884	Asia Regional & Australia	SQ series - 288 (P12/J42/Y234) SR series - 323 (J30/Y293)	31	These aircraft are the derated version of Boeing 777-200ER. Being retired SQA-SQD transferred to subsidiary LCC - Scoot
Boeing	777-212ER	9V-SVA - 9V-SVE; 9V-SVH-9V-SVO		Rolls Royce Trent 892	New Zealand, Europe, North America & some regional flights	285 (J30/Y255)	13	9V-SVF and 9V-SVG are leased to Royal Brunei Airlines
Boeing	777-312	9V-SYA - 9V-SYL		Rolls Royce Trent 892	Asia Regional, Istanbul, Athens & Australia	332 (P18/J49/Y265)	12
Boeing	777-312ER	9V-SWA - 9V-SWT		General Electric GE90-115BL1	Long Haul and some Asia Regional flights	278 (P8/J42/Y228)	19

External Links

• Singapore Airlines(Wikipedia)
• Official Singapore Airlines Website