In the din that followed the unveiling of a partnership between Tata Group and Singapore Airlines (SIA) on September 19 to start a full-service airline in India, an announcement by South East Asia's biggest carrier five days later may have gone unnoticed. SIA and SilkAir, its wholly-owned regional offshoot, said they will increase services between India and Singapore to 107 times a week from 98 across 11 Indian cities, including a third daily service from New Delhi, from October 27, 2013.
Company officials say there is little to link two announcements, but there is no denying that both underscore the importance of India for SIA. Indian aviation has always been a lodestone for the Tatas, but the same is true for SIA. In each futile attempt the Tatas made in the past to enter aviation — creation of a joint venture in the 1990s and purchase of government-owned Air India in 2000 — their partner happened to be none other than SIA.
29/09/13 Binoy Prabhakar/Economic Times
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Company officials say there is little to link two announcements, but there is no denying that both underscore the importance of India for SIA. Indian aviation has always been a lodestone for the Tatas, but the same is true for SIA. In each futile attempt the Tatas made in the past to enter aviation — creation of a joint venture in the 1990s and purchase of government-owned Air India in 2000 — their partner happened to be none other than SIA.
29/09/13 Binoy Prabhakar/Economic Times
