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Indonesian police today announced that they had arrested a 21-year-old male student, Ilham, from a private university in Banten after he was traced for sending a bomb threat to Singapore Airlines (SIA). Ilham was arrested yesterday at his home in the Baleria housing complex in Tangerang, Banten. This comes less than a week after he sent the bomb threat to SIA on 1st July.

India's "District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum of South Chennai" has ordered Singapore Airlines to pay 35,000 rupees (S$735) to compensate Indian businessman Mr G.R.K. Reddy, for downgrading his business class seat to economy class without informing him.

In light of the MERS outbreak in South Korea, flagship carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA) will waive cancellation fees and administration fees for refund, rebooking or re-routing for customers holding confirmed tickets to and from Seoul's Incheon Airport, it announced on its website on Wednesday (Jun 10).

Several months ago, my daughter bought an air ticket from Singapore Airlines (SIA) to travel to South Korea. However, with the increasing rate of Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) infection and deaths in South Korea, she has rightly decided to postpone her travel. Imagine the shock and dismay when SIA gave her these options: Take a $285 refund out of the $800 she paid for the ticket to cancel the trip, or Pay an additional $889 on top of the $800 she already paid to postpone the trip.

Over the weekend, Singapore Airlines Flight 836, flying from Singapore to Shanghai, lost power mid-flight on both of its Rolls-Royce engines. According to Flightradar 24, the Airbus A330-343 experienced the problem while cruising at 39,000 feet. The incident, which took place just south of Hong Kong, caused the airliner to descend 13,000 feet before the crew was able to restart the engines.

Have anyone experienced drought onboard a long haul flight? I just DID. 13 hours SFO - Seoul whole flight no water. No toilet flushing, no washing hand or wash up, limited, almost no drinking water, keeps feeding us juice which makes us more thirsty and cannot go toilet as no water. Also no hot beverages.

I am a concerned citizen who read news that some Indian pilots used fake flying licenses to fly for Indian Airlines. According to news reports, 14 pilots were barred from flying recently and the Indian government is set to arrest even more pilots with fake qualifications. I hope you do not blame me for speaking the truth, but many loyal supporters of your airline like myself are worried. We fear for our safety now, especially in the wake of all these fake degree and fake license scams.

When I got to the SIA transfer desk at Terminal 3 to request my boarding pass for the next flight, I was told that there was no agreement with AirAsia for transfers, and that I would have to leave the transit area and check in again at the departure area. This meant rushing through immigration, heading out of the arrival area, checking in on the departure level, re-entering the transit area through immigration, before making my way to the boarding gate for my flight, which was just across from the SIA transfer desk.

The Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC) has ranked Singapore 29th in terms of airline safety: Singapore’s ranking in terms of safety is even worse than some of the China airlines like Hainan Airlines, Sichuan Airlines and Shenzhen Airlines.

A Singapore Airlines flight from Milan to Singapore was diverted to New Delhi because of a drunk passenger on board. A spokesperson for the airline confirmed that flight SQ367 was diverted to Delhi on Thursday (Mar 19).