SIA Group orders SAF from local Singapore refinery – Business Traveller
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SIA Group orders SAF from local Singapore refinery – Business Traveller

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The Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group has signed an agreement with Neste to purchase 1,000 tonnes of neat Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). This will make SIA and Scoot, the two airlines in the group, the first carriers to receive SAF produced at Neste’s refinery in the country, at Singapore Changi airport. Neste will blend…

Emirates is back in Cambodia – Business Traveller
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Emirates is back in Cambodia – Business Traveller

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On 1 May 2024, Emirates Airline celebrated the relaunch of its daily Phnom Penh service via Singapore. This service adds another link from Singapore to an additional point in Australasia, following Singapore-Melbourne, which Emirates relaunched in January 2023. It also expands Singapore-Dubai operations to four daily flights. The occasion was commemorated with a ceremonial event…

Air Japan launches Singapore Changi route – Business Traveller
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Air Japan launches Singapore Changi route – Business Traveller

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On 27 April, Singapore’s Changi airport welcomed Air Japan’s inaugural flight to Singapore. Air Japan now offers five weekly services between Tokyo Narita (NRT) and Singapore on its Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft. Six carriers are now operating approximately 160 flights a week between Japan and Singapore Air Japan, an All Nippon Airways (ANA) subsidiary, operates…

IHG to open “zero-energy” Hotel Indigo at Singapore Changi – Business Traveller
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IHG to open “zero-energy” Hotel Indigo at Singapore Changi – Business Traveller

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The landside hotel – which will be built on the existing Terminal 2 Coach Stand and is scheduled to open by 2028 – will also feature a rooftop day club, bar and infinity pool. The property will join two other landside hotels at the airport – Crowne Plaza Changi Airport (connected to Terminal 3) and…

Air Canada returns to Singapore’s Changi airport – Business Traveller
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Air Canada returns to Singapore’s Changi airport – Business Traveller

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Singapore’s Changi airport this week celebrated Air Canada’s inaugural service between Singapore and Vancouver with a water cannon salute. Now operating four times a week, this is the only nonstop flight connecting Singapore and Canada. Singapore Airlines launched service to Vancouver during the pandemic as a tag-on to its Seattle flights. However, the airline terminated…

China Southern launches Singapore-Daxing service – Business Traveller
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China Southern launches Singapore-Daxing service – Business Traveller

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On 7 March, China Southern Airlines performed its inaugural Beijing Daxing – Singapore flight. The new service will initially operate three times a week, using Airbus narrowbody aircraft on the six-hour flights, with recliner seats in business class. From Daxing, the China Southern flights depart every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 0230 and arrive in…

Qantas to resume Singapore-Darwin flights – Business Traveller
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Qantas to resume Singapore-Darwin flights – Business Traveller

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Australia’s Qantas has announced it is launching a second international route from Darwin, with direct flights from the Northern Territory to Singapore’s Changi airport. Commencing in December, the new Qantas flights will add more than 60,000 seats on the route each year. The flights will provide Territorians with a direct Qantas option to Singapore and…

Changi airport offers free bike hire to passengers with a layover – Business Traveller
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Changi airport offers free bike hire to passengers with a layover – Business Traveller

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Singapore Changi airport is offering free bike hire to passengers with a layover in Singapore. Travellers are free to use the bikes for two hours to explore attractions in the vicinity, including the Jurassic Mile and nearby beaches along Singapore’s East Coast. Note that passengers must have at least 5.5 hours but less than 24…