{"id":331,"date":"2015-04-26T15:14:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T15:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=331"},"modified":"2015-04-27T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T15:18:38","slug":"singapore-a-critical-market-for-australias-qantas-says-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Singapore a &#8216;critical market&#8217; for Australia&#8217;s Qantas, says CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"loser quantas\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas-300x170.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas-200x113.jpg 200w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Despite moving its hub for European flights from Changi to Dubai two years ago, Singapore is still a critical market for Qantas, said the Australian carrier&#8217;s chief executive officer Alan Joyce. Singapore plays a key role in supporting Qantas&#8217; plans to expand in Asia, where demand for air travel is growing faster than anywhere else. Mr Joyce said: &#8220;Since we separated our European (Dubai) and Asian (Singapore) hub, we&#8217;ve put in a lot more capacity for the Singapore market and made new investments in products and services.&#8221; This includes a multi-million dollar passenger lounge which opened at Changi Airport in 2013.<br \/>\nSource: Straitstimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite moving its hub for European flights from Changi to Dubai two years ago, Singapore&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[21,9,14,33],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas.jpg",500,284,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas-300x170.jpg",300,170,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas.jpg",500,284,false],"large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas.jpg",500,284,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas.jpg",500,284,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas.jpg",500,284,false],"enternews-featured":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas.jpg",500,284,false],"enternews-medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas.jpg",500,284,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/loser-quantas.jpg",480,273,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}