On introducing budget flights between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, the stumbling block appears to be Malaysia's sympathy towards flag carrier Malaysia Airlines, and preference for the existing near duopoly with Singapore Airlines.

* 2000 – A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 operating as Flight 006 collides with construction equipment upon takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 79 passengers and four crew members.

The national flag carrier, Singapore Airlines, operates from Changi Airport Terminal 2 and 3.

Current users include Sabre ( reservations ), Amadeus ( reservations ), VISA Inc ( authorizations ), American Express ( authorizations ), EDS SHARES ( reservations ), Holiday Inn ( central reservations ), CBOE ( order routing ), Singapore Airlines, Emirates, KLM, Garuda Indonesia, Amtrak, Marriott International, Travelport and the NYPD ( 911 system ).

* October 31 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang Kai Shek International Airport, resulting in 83 deaths.

* Jubilee, collective name of the Boeing 777 fleet owned by Singapore Airlines

Notable airliners – an Airbus A380 " superjumbo " of Singapore Airlines takes off

Pratt and Whitney's customers include United Airlines, Air India, Martinair, Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, and JetBlue.

These were followed in 1974 by the London-Sahara-Munich World Cup Rally, and in 1977 by the Singapore Airlines London-Sydney Rally.

Airlines flying into the airport include Royal Brunei Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Malaysian Airlines, Air Asia, Cebu Pacific and Thai Airways International.

Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited ( operating as Virgin Atlantic ) is a British airline owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group ( 51 %) and Singapore Airlines ( 49 %).

In March 2000 Virgin Group sold 49 % of the airline's holding company to Singapore Airlines for £ 600. 25 million.

It houses a number of companies including SBS Broadcasting Networks Ltd, Teletext Ltd, CBS News, Technicolor, Discovery Channels Europe, Intelsat, Singapore Airlines, Qantas Airlines, Foxtons Estate Agents, and a Virgin Active health club ( Virgin Active purchased Esporta at the end of 2011 ).

A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-300 taxiing at Singapore Changi Airport, Singapore.

It can accommodate the Airbus A380, which fly routes to Singapore ( Singapore Airlines ), London via Singapore and Los Angeles ( Qantas ), Dubai and Auckland ( Emirates ).

A Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 and a Korean Air Boeing 747 on the tarmac

A few days later, Dosé announced a BD310 million ( USD825 million ) restructuring plan that included originating or terminating all flights in Bahrain, ceasing routes to Johannesburg, Dublin, Jakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney ; eliminating nine Boeing 767s from the fleet, phasing out the Airbus A340-300 from the fleet, introducing the Airbus A321 in July 2007 and the Airbus A330-300 in 2009, and terminating employees based on performance and without regard for nationality.

It operated two Airbus A310-200s for a brief period from 1993 to 1995 before they were transferred to Singapore Airlines, and two Fokker 70s from 1995 to 2000.

On 1 February 1999, it took delivery of its first new Airbus A320 aircraft ( A7-ABR ) on lease from Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise ( SALE ).

* March 26 – Four armed men claiming to be members of the Pakistan Peoples Party hijack Singapore Airlines Flight 117, an Airbus A310-300 with 123 other people on board, during a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Singapore.

A Valuair Airbus A320 at Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 1

The SIA Airbus A310 was hijacked by Pakistani militants on 26 March 1991, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore.

Singapore Armed Forces ( SAF ) commandos stormed the Airbus at 6: 50 am on 27 March with the operation over in 30 seconds and 123 passengers and crew were freed with no injuries to hostages or SOF commandos.

The Singapore Airlines fleet features an exclusively wide-body aircraft from four aircraft families: the Boeing 777, Airbus A380, Airbus A340, and the Airbus A330.

By contrast, Singapore has never named the Airbus A380 or Airbus A330.

Jetstar Asia carried 2. 7 million passengers during the year to 30 June 2011, an increase of 18 % on the previous year, and saw Revenue passenger kilometres increase by 39. 7 %, as long-haul flights from Singapore to Auckland and Melbourne using Airbus A330 aircraft were launched.

Jetstar Asia Airways Airbus A320 family | Airbus A320 at Singapore Changi Airport.

Singapore Airlines has 100 planes including the A380 which is the largest plane in service, on-board massages and a choice of DVDs.

These are already in use at Dubai International Airport, Karachi Jinnah International Airport, Melbourne Airport, Sydney Airport, Singapore Changi Airport, Toronto Pearson Airport, Montreal-Trudeau Airport, Incheon International Airport, Beijing Capital International Airport, Hong Kong International Airport and Narita Airport with the A380.

In November 2007, the BBC reported a story headlined " Airline Bans A380 Mile-High Club " about a measure taken by Singapore Airlines.

With its introduction with Singapore Airlines in October 2007, the A380 has become the largest airliner in the world, surpassing the Boeing 747.

1 Mbit / s was only recently introduced in 2006 and priced at BND $ 128 per month ( Equivalent to Singapore currency ).

It also has development centers at Singapore, Santa Ana, California, and Linz, Austria.

In South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia, BCG was given at birth and again at age 12.

But in Malaysia and Singapore, from 2001, this policy was changed to once only at birth, and it was discontinued in South Korea.

In 1950, he was appointed Raffles Professor of History at the newly-established University of Malaya in Singapore.

After serving as visiting professor at Harvard University in 1958, and the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley in 1959 – 60, he resigned his post in Singapore at the University of Malaya to become an independent writer and celebrity.

* Communicable Disease Centre, a hospital at Moulmein Road in Novena, Singapore

They quickly gained air superiority over the Allies, who at this stage of the war were often disorganized, under-trained and poorly equipped, and Japanese air power contributed significantly to their successes in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma.

According to Judith Nagata, a professor of Asia Research Institute in the National University of Singapore, The Afghan mujahiddin, locked in combat with the Soviet enemy in the 1980s, could be praised as " freedom fighters " by their American backers at the time, while the present Taliban, viewed, among other things, as protectors of American enemy Osama bin Laden, are unequivocally " fundamentalist ".”"

Alan Marshall, in the Department of Social Sciences at Mahidol University, for example, reflects upon the way Gaia philosophy has been used and advocated by environmentalists, spiritualists, managers, economists, and scientists and engineers ( see The Unity of Nature, 2002, Imperial College Press: London and Singapore ).

His finds were displayed as an exhibit on the " Early History of Johore ", at the National Museum of Singapore, and several beads that he had discovered suggested that trade went on between the Roman Empire and the Malays, presumably, Gardner thought, via India.

However, it was the British, who after initially establishing bases at Jesselton, Kuching, Penang and Singapore, ultimately secured their hegemony across the territory that is now Malaysia.

Although the Chinese and Indian communities could maintain their own Chinese and Tamil-language primary schools, all their students were required to learn Malay, and to study an agreed “ Malayan curriculum .” Most importantly, the entry exam to the University of Malaya ( which moved from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur in 1963 ) would be conducted in Malay, even though most teaching at the university was in English until the 1970s.

* First day of school at schools in Malaysia and Singapore

* 1942 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.

B. Jeyaretnam at the hands of the Government of Singapore.

After the Fall of Singapore to Japan, he became a prisoner of war at Changi Prison from February 1942 to September 1945.

Ribbentrop tried to convince Matsuoka to urge the government in Tokyo to attack the great British naval base at Singapore, claiming the Royal Navy was too weak to retaliate due to its involvement in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Philby provided Stalin with advance warning of Operation Barbarossa and of the Japanese intention to strike south at Singapore instead of attacking the USSR as Hitler had urged.

* Executive MBA ( EMBA general management in cooperation with Nanyang Business School ( Nanyang Technological University ), Singapore and Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain and faculty from Haas School of Business ( University of California at Berkeley ), USA )

Mahayana Buddhism is the first religion in Singapore though not representing a majority, with significant numbers following Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism or no religion at all.

A survey conducted by Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore indicated that 78 % of households own computers at home and 7 in 10 households have Internet access ( 2006 ).

* IDA, Singapore Infocomm Statistics at a Glance, Singapore