Largest Shopping Mall
Changi Airport is the largest shopping mall in terms of sales. It has been estimated that about 70 percent of all travellers buy or eat something at Changi. It has one of the highest concession revenues per passenger in the world.
Heaviest Air Cargo
The National Forwarder packed a 32-ton, 63-foot riser tensioner of deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu into a Korean Airline 747-400 freighter for Frankfurt on 18 Aug 2007. It took up 12 main- deck pallet positions in the aircraft. A 150-ton crane was required to do this loading.
First Budget Terminal
The Budget Terminal at Changi is the fi rst terminal in Asia dedicated to serving budget airlines. It opened in 2006.
First Air Accidents First Budget Airline
Largest Aerospace MRO Hub
Singapore is the largest aerospace Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) hub in Asia, with an output of S$7.1 billion and employing 19,000 people in 2008. It is the fi rst MRO centre in the world that can maintain the Trent 900 engine.
Valuair, Singapore’s fi rst privately-owned budget airline, was launched on 5 May 2004. Singapore’s second budget airline Tiger Airways, was launched on 31 Aug 2004. Valuair merged with Jetstar Asia, the country’s third budget airline, on 24 Jul 2005 to form Orange Star.
Singapore’s fi rst air accident occurred on 17 Feb 1931. Flying Offi cer Davis and Corporal Boyce were killed when the Hawker Horsley Bomber plane crashed into the sea off Seletar Air Force Base. The accident happened 30 min after take-off . The fi rst civilian air crash took place on 13 Mar 1954 when a Qantas-BOAC aircraft touched down at the Kallang Airport. Two crew members and 31 passengers were killed.
Worst Air Disaster
On 19 Dec 1997, a SilkAir Boeing 737-300 crashed into a river about 56 km north of Palembang while fl ying from Jakarta to Singapore. All seven crew members and 97 passengers were killed on Flight 185.
Largest Budget Airline
Tiger Airways, started in 2004, serves the Asia-Pacifi c region and fl ies to airports within a four-hour radius of Singapore. It fl ies to 35 destinations in nine countries.
Longest Air Cargo
The National Forwarder transported a 22.3m slip joint for an oil rig to Chennai, India on board an SIA cargo plane on 4 Mar 2008. The previous record was a 21.3m Christmas tree fl own from USA for display at Orchard Road.
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