{"id":80884,"date":"2026-08-31T03:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=80884"},"modified":"2026-08-31T03:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:01:02","slug":"why-singapore-airlines-bet-on-air-india-is-worth-the-long-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=80884","title":{"rendered":"Why Singapore Airlines\u2019 bet on Air India is worth the long haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-index-7\">\n<p>As far back as 2022, Goh Choon Phong, Singapore Airlines\u2019s chief executive officer, said equity investment in Vistara had helped Singapore Airlines widen its geographic reach, leading to a significant boost in passenger base\u2014thereby acknowledging that India provides an important passenger feed to the Singapore based airline. Singapore Airlines had a 49% stake in Vistara. Vistara was eventually merged with Air India with Singapore Airlines holding around 25% in the current Air India, which holds the second position with a domestic market share of around 20%. Given these numbers, Singapore Airlines\u2019s investment is bound to pay off in the near future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/opinion\/why-singapore-airlines-bet-on-air-india-is-worth-the-long-haul-11788085607618.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far back as 2022, Goh Choon Phong, Singapore Airlines\u2019s chief executive officer, said equity investment in Vistara had helped Singapore Airlines widen its geographic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80884","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=80884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}