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Aircraft Singapore Airlines A380.
Route Sydney to Singapore.
Class Business, seat 19D.
Seat pitch and width 55 inches (distance between rows of seats; airlines use imperial measures) and 34 inches (between armrests); folds out to a flat bed.
Seat configuration 1-2-1 layout ensures all seats have unimpeded access to an aisle; 60 business-class seats on the top deck.
Luggage allowance 30kg checked baggage, plus two pieces of cabin baggage up to 7kg.
Scheduled flight time Eight hours. (more…)

The addition of Paris to the airline’s A380 routes is good news for Australians, writes Julietta Jameson.
Eighteen months and an economic downturn later, Singapore Airlines is continuing the expansion of its global A380 services out of Changi with the addition of Paris to its itinerary.
Australia which hosted the service’s inaugural route from Sydney to Singapore in October 2007 continues to benefit from the expansion. As of last Monday, passengers can not only fly from Sydney to London with (more…)

Since tickets went on sale on 6 February, 60% of the 2009 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix Paddock Club availability has already been sold.
Sales of Sky and Club suites have also been brisk with 40% of the available corporate suites already taken up with a number of locations already fully sold or close to sell out.
“Given the current economic realities we are greatly encouraged by the very strong support we have received,” said Darren Chen, Singapore GP’s Director for Corporate Sales. (more…)

What’s new in this city state that punches above its weight
Why?
Singapore has been synonymous with commerce since its days as a trading post for the British East India Company in the early 19th century. Today, business centres on Raffles Place, a soaring skyline of glass and steel clustered around the mouth of the Singapore River and named, of course, after the island’s colonist, Sir Stamford Raffles.
Below the skyscrapers stand Boat Quay’s rows of shophouses, a reminder (more…)

Small things amount to big savings as airlines target paper in their bid to beat rising fuel costs, writes John Burfitt.
There’s a good chance your favourite airline has put itself on a strict diet, but it would take a keen-eyed passenger to notice what is on this particular list of do’s and don’ts.
“Diet teams” are working throughout the airline industry to find ways that aircraft can shed excess kilograms so that they use less fuel.
Every item on board is being evaluated (more…)