SIngapore Airlines October 2010 Operating Results

LOS ANGELES, November 15, 2010 – The operating results for October 2010 are given in the table below.

In October 2010, Singapore Airlines’ capacity (measured in available seat kilometers) increased 1.4% year-on-year against a 0.6% decrease in system wide passenger carriage (measured in revenue passenger kilometers). As a result, passenger load factor (PLF) declined by 1.5 percentage points to 79.6%. The number of passengers carried decreased by 1.8% to 1.4 million. All regions except East Asia registered declines in PLFs over the same month last year.

The increase in capacity over the same period last year arose from the injection of additional frequencies to several destinations including Houston (via Moscow), Manchester (via Munich), Hong Kong, Seoul and Delhi. In addition, the all-Business Class service to Los Angeles returned to daily operations in October 2010.

System wide cargo capacity increased by 7.4% while cargo traffic (measured in freight ton kilometers) improved by 9.0%. This led to an improvement in cargo load factor of 1.0 percentage point to 66.4%. The improvement in CLFs for Americas and South West Pacific continued as demand remained strong.