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Company Watch - Singapore Airlines

AirGuide Business, April 7, 2008

Apr 7, 2008

AWAS said it finalized the purchase of six new Airbus A330-300s for lease to Singapore Airlines. Transaction is valued at $1.2 billion at list prices and first delivery will be next year. It ordered up to 100 A320s two months ago. Mar 27, 2008

Singapore Airlines said on Wednesday Mar. 26 that it had to ground an Airbus A380 on Monday and transfer passengers to two smaller Boeing 747s bound for Sydney, after a fuel pump failed to work. This was the fourth incident in three months for the world's largest passenger jet since it entered commercial service with Singapore Airlines in October, following two years of delivery delays caused by wiring glitches. Singapore Air is currently the world's only airline to operate the A380, with three of the superjumbos operating daily flights from Singapore to Sydney and London. It has another 16 of the aircraft on order. An A380 rolled off the tarmac in Singapore after a fault with a tow truck in January, while another was grounded in February due to a fuel pump defect and a third aircraft was grounded in Sydney earlier this month due to problems with its brakes. Despite the mishaps, Singapore Airlines insisted that the A380's reliability since entering service "has been generally excellent". Mar 26, 2008

Singapore Airlines will reduce the weight limit for each piece of luggage on its US services to 50 lb. from 70 lb. effective April 1. Each passenger will be entitled to check two bags. Mar 24, 2008

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