Singapore Airlines is the national airline of Singapore. It operates from home-airport Changi Airport. The airline has, until now, received more awards and prizes than any other aircraft operator. It's listed in the top-15 of best airlines in the world concerning revenue, the number of passengers and the number of kilometres. Singapore is the eighth largest airline of Asia and sixth in the world for the number of transported people. Singapore Airlines is well known all over the world and has built up a good name as trendsetter of innovation, safety and service. The company is well represented on routes in South East-Asia, East-Asia, South-Asia and the famous Kangaroo-route between Europe and Australia. The firm is known for the large sum of Airbus A380's that are ordered and was the First to fly the A380, an achievement which they've used as a slogan for quite some time. Besides large Airbusses operates SA the largest fleet of Boeing 777's. Each plane is replaced by another one in five years. Subsidiary Silkair takes care of most of the regional flights.

In 1947, Malayan Airways Limited (MAL) was founded. After Malaya, Singapore, Sabah, en Sarawak formed the federation of Malaysia, the name was changed into Malaysian Airlines. When Singapore and Malaysia split up, the name Malaysian - Singapore Airlines came into existence. On the third of April 1971, the airline was divided into two seperate companies: Malaysian Airlines System and Singapore Airlines. In the forties and fifties, the airline went through a process of huge growth. Singapore was helped with that by firms that used to operate for British colonies, like BOAC and Qantas. In the seventies, the Boeing 747 was added to the fleet. That lead to the fact that many more destinations came within reach of Singapore Airlines. Among them were the United States, Canada and a number of European cities.

On the 29^th of September, Singapore Airlines ordered 25 Airbus A3XX's, as the A380 was called back then. They did so to promote themselves and even based a slogan on the order. The delivery was suspected to occur in the middle of 2006, but due to technical problems this was postponed. In October 2007 Singapore finally received their first A380. The first commercial flight took place on October 25, 2007, and brought its passengers from Singapore to Sydney, Australia.