gafplane@sltnet.lk
RCyAF, Air Ceylon, Air Lanka, SIA and Sri Lankan Airlines.
The four engine Airbus A340 was designed for ‘long, thin’ routes and therefore was the ideal aircraft to be used on scheduled flights from Singapore to San Francisco, USA, via Seoul, Korea. The SIA Boeing 747s have been operating via Hong Kong, for some time before that. The objective was to provide a convenient route for Indian traffic among others, bound for the ‘Silicon Valley’ in California, USA. Unlike the Marketing Division in our national carrier, which worked only from 9 am to 5 pm, Singapore Airlines’ own division analysed permutations and combinations of traffic patterns 24/7 to provide ‘bottoms on seats.’