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Singapore Air says business travel is climbing its way back

FILE PHOTO: A Singapore Airlines Airbus A350-900 plane undergoes maintenance at Changi Airport in Singapore, Oct 24, 2020. (Reuters)

Business travel is returning for Singapore Airlines Ltd, with forward bookings accounting for a similar proportion of ticket sales as before the Covid pandemic now that border restrictions have been lifted.

“Since April of this year, when Singapore fully opened its borders, we have seen a strong rebound in corporate travel,” the carrier’s executive vice president of commercial operations, Lee Lik Hsin, said at a briefing Thursday. 

Lee was speaking the day after Singapore Airlines released annual results that showed its net loss narrowed to S$125 million (3.1 billion baht) in the second half…

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