India to occupy key role in SIA's global strategies: Philip Goh

Singapore Airlines plans to seek more landing rights in India, launch flights to new destinations, enhance capacity on the routes that it services and recruit more people including cabin crew here.
Singapore Airlines plans to seek more landing rights in India, launch flights to new destinations, enhance capacity on the routes that it services and recruit more people including cabin crew here. Clearly, the airline hopes to leverage on the growth story in India and other emerging markets to expand its operations globally .Philip Goh,regional vice president at Singapore Airlines, says India will occupy a key role in SIA’s global strategies being one of the fastest growing large aviation markets worldwide.
Recovery from the global slowdown has resulted in airline traffic looking up and the coming years will see consolidation in most markets . Traffic between Singapore and India is expected to rise with the scaling up of the comprehensive economic cooperation agreement (CECA) between the two countries to facilitate flow of trade, services and investment. India is a priority market and an important component of Singapore Airlines global operations, said Philip, a top SIA official looking after the airline’s business in this region.
13/09/10 G Ganapathy Subramaniam/Economic Times

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Categories: Foreign Sep 2010