{"id":11493,"date":"2025-11-14T16:32:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=11493"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:32:58","slug":"singapore-airlines-ceo-says-not-expecting-major-impact-from-boeing-777-9-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=11493","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Airlines CEO says not expecting major impact from Boeing 777-9 delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines is not expecting a major impact from the delay in delivery of Boeing 777-9 planes, CEO Goh Choon Phong said on Friday (Nov 14).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SIA has always built in flex in our fleet plan. So in this case, even with the delay, we don&#8217;t expect it to have any major impact,&#8221; he said at a briefing after the release of the airline&#8217;s first-half results.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Boeing pushed the first delivery of its long-delayed 777X jet programme out to 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Goh declined to reveal compensation discussions between the airline and Boeing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As for delivery delays and all that, or future aircraft supplies, I would just say that in some sense, SIA is in a privileged position as one of the leading carriers, so you can expect that we should have some preferential treatment,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore Airlines on Thursday reported a 68 per cent fall in half-year profit, hit by losses at its Indian associate Air India, higher costs and intensifying competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/sia-ceo-boeing-777-9-delay-not-expecting-major-impact-5466811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines is not expecting a major impact from the delay in delivery of Boeing 777-9 planes, CEO Goh Choon Phong said on Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--zScf2FJS--\/c_crop,h_449,w_799,x_1,y_65\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2024-04:reuters_1,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/one-cms\/core\/2025-11-14T021010Z_1_LYNXMPELAD02R_RTROPTP_3_BOEING-787.JPG?itok=NgG1pskI","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8587,4972,5668,5736,8887,3312,1406,22],"class_list":["post-11493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-airlines","tag-boeing","tag-ceo","tag-delay","tag-expecting","tag-impact","tag-major","tag-singapore","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}