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- By the end of 2021, SilkAir ceased operations, with all flights transferred to its parent company Singapore Airlines or its low-cost affiliate Scoot.
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May 27, 2021 · Following rumours in 2017, Singapore Airlines finally announced in May 2018 that it would merge SilkAir into the mainline carrier, to achieve a streamlined single full-service (SIA) and single low-cost brand (Scoot) across both regional and long-haul flights.
- It began as Tradewinds. SilkAir was formed in 1975 as a subsidiary of SIA named Tradewinds, but it was not an airline yet. As SIA's tours and travel arm, it was meant to develop and sell SIA-exclusive holiday packages.
- SilkAir launched as full-fledged regional carrier with new name, logo, on April Fools' Day 1992.
- Tragedy on SilkAir flight 185.
- SilkAir cabin crew saw four outfit changes over the years. SilkAir flight attendants first took to the skies donning seagull motif dresses by homegrown designer, Celia Loe.
Jan 9, 2020 · ch-Aviation reports that SilkAir is due to complete its merger sometime in the 2020s as part of the group's realignment strategy. When SilkAir completely vanishes, we will only see full-service Singapore Airlines and low-cost Scoot remaining. In the meantime, the group aims to have new business class cabins installed on all SilkAir's narrowbody ...
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Nov 22, 2018 · Announced back in May, SIA has decided to scale back SilkAir services with a view to eventually merging the brand into Singapore Airlines. The rapidly reducing profits at SilkAir contrasted starkly with the 150% rise in profits at the SIA Group, prompting a group-wide review of operations.
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The fate of SilkAir was all but sealed long before the rumour surfaced that it would go the way of Tigerair which was merged with Scoot last year.
Nov 22, 2018 · SINGAPORE - Scoot will acquire some SilkAir routes over the next two years, ahead of SilkAir's merger into Singapore Airlines (SIA). Read more at straitstimes.com.
On 22 November 2018, SilkAir announced plans to transfer 17 routes to Scoot including Luang Prabang, Chiang Mai, Kota Kinabalu, Yogyakarta and Wuhan over the months of April 2019 to July 2020, ahead of its merger with Singapore Airlines in the late 2020 or early 2021.
