A quarter of a century after it first won Business Traveller’s award for Best Airport in the World in 1988, Changi Airport has once again been named the world’s best by readers of the leading travel publication. This 25th consecutive nod is unprecedented in the magazine’s awards history.
Changi Airport Group (CAG) today released its annual report for the financial year ended 31 March 2012 (FY11/12). CAG closed the year, its third post-corporatisation, with a strong set of operating results, notwithstanding the uncertain global economic outlook and a challenging operating environment.
Mr Chen Ziwu (陈兹武), a native of Hubei province in China, has become the third lucky shopper at Changi Airport to qualify for the ‘Be a Changi Millionaire’ 2012 Grand Draw. The 37-year-old general manager of an American payment solutions company in Beijing was on one of his routine business trips to Singapore in August, when he shopped at Changi Airport.
With the closure of the Budget Terminal (BT) at Singapore Changi Airport on 25 September 2012, airlines currently operating at the terminal – Berjaya Air, Cebu Pacific, Firefly, Mandala Airlines, South East Asian Airlines and Tiger Airways – will move their operations to Terminal 2 on that day.
Changi Airport today welcomed the arrival of Drukair, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bhutan, which is situated in the Himalayas between China and India.
The second finalist of Changi Airport’s ‘Be a Changi Millionaire’ 2012 campaign hails from Shanghai, China. Ms Sun Ming (孙明), 27, had completed her postgraduate studies at international graduate business school INSEAD in Singapore, and was on her journey home in late June, when she shopped at Changi Airport.
The number of passenger movements at Singapore Changi Airport increased 4.5% on-year to 4.36 million in July 2012. Air traffic movements grew in tandem, with 27,100 landings and take-offs recorded at Changi during the month, or 4.6% more compared to a year ago.
Singapore Changi Airport handled 4.4 million passenger movements in June 2012, 9.7% more than a year before. There were 26,700 landings and take-offs at Changi during the month, a growth of 6.4% year-on-year.
In memory and honour of Mr Howe Yoon Chong’s contributions to Changi Airport, Changi Airport Group (CAG) has introduced the CAG-Howe Yoon Chong (CAG-HYC) Book Prize, a support programme under the Changi Foundation.
This month, Changi Airport Group (CAG) proudly marks a new milestone for Terminal 1 (T1), the Grand Dame of Singapore Changi Airport. Upgrading works for Changi’s oldest terminal have been completed and a completion ceremony will take place on 18 July 2012.
The first finalist to emerge in Changi Airport’s third run of the ‘Be a Changi Millionaire’ retail promotion is a female engineer from Shanghai, China. Ms Pan Lizhu (潘丽珠), 35, purchased two new iPads at Changi Airport in June – a deal that not only stretched her dollar but clinched for her a once-in-a-lifetime chance to win a million dollars.
Kinetic Rain, the world's largest kinetic art sculpture, was officially unveiled today. The sculpture takes pride of place at Terminal 1's Departure Check-in Hall and it is installed as part of the terminal's upgrading project. The refurbished T1 is aptly themed ‘Tropical City’ in keeping with Singapore’s garden city status and where rain, is very much a part of the tropical climate.