Travelling to Singapore

Changi International Airport is the main airport and major regional hub of the country. It is located at a distance of 17.2 kilometres north-east from the commercial centre in Changi. It is a regional hub of Singapore Airlines, Singapore Airlines Cargo, SilkAir, Tiger Airways, Jetstar Asia Airways, Valuair and Jett8 Airlines Cargo. It is also a secondary hub for Qantas.

The airport has three terminals, namely T1, T2 & T3 and a dedicated Budget Terminal for low-cost airlines. The latter serves airlines like Tiger Airways, Cebu Pacific, Firefly and Berjaya Air. Singapore Airlines uses both terminals T2 and T3. A free Skytrain service connects the various terminals.

Terminal 2 has an indoor garden, a music listening area with couches, a computer gaming room, a small movie theatre, paid massage service and plenty of duty-free shops.

T1 has a swimming pool and Jacuzzi. The terminal operates Malaysia Airlines, Philippine Airlines, Royal Brunei Airlines, Air Canada and Austrian Airlines. Internet access is available at all the terminals. ATMs and money changers are also located at all the terminals. T3 serves China Eastern Airlines, Jet Airways, Qatar Airways and United Airlines. The airport also has a JetQuay CIP Terminal that is located next to terminal T2.

Seletar Airport, Singapore's first international airport is situated in Seletar. Located to the north-east of the main island, the airport is maintained by the Changi Airport Group. The airport is operational from 8:30 am to 6:30 pm and serves mainly chartered flights.

Apart from these two public airports, Singapore also has several military air bases. These include Changi Air Base (West), Changi Air Base (East), Paya Lebar Air Base, Sembawang Air Base, Tengah Air Base and Pulau Sudong Airstrip.  

Singapore Airlines is the national carrier and Changi Airport is the hub of the airline. The airline connects the island country with South-east Asia, East Asia, South Asia and other countries of the world. From its primary hub in Singapore, the airline serves 61 destinations in 35 countries across five continents.

Main Airports in Singapore
Changi International Airport is the major international airport of Singapore. Spread over an area of 13 square kilometres, it is the main aviation hub in South-east Asia. The airport is located at a distance of 17.2 kilometres from the commercial centre in Changi.

The airport is the hub of carriers like Singapore Airlines, Singapore Airlines Cargo, SilkAir, Tiger Airways, Jetstar Asia Airways, Valuair and Jett8 Airlines Cargo. Changi airport has 3 passenger terminals and plans are underway to develop a 4th terminal.

Well connected internationally, the airport connects Singapore with countries like China, France, India, Mauritius, Japan, Bangladesh, Bangkok, Australia, UAE and Amsterdam, to name few.

The carriers operating from this airport include China Airlines, Finnair, Delta Air Lines, Etihad Airways, Hong Kong Airlines, Kingfisher Airlines, Malaysia Airlines and Lufthansa. Other destinations linked via this airport include Chicago (United Airlines), Moscow (Transaero Airlines), Jakarta (Sriwijaya Air), Denpasar (Qatar Airways), Seoul (Korean Air) and Sydney (Qantas), among others.

Seletar Airport, the first international airport of Singapore is located in Seletar in the north-eastern area of the main island. The airport has two check-in counters. Other available facilities at the airport include an outdoor car park, taxi stall, VIP lounge, three sets of credit-card telephone, lavatory for the handicapped and soft-drink vending machine.

Previously an international airport, it now serves only as a general aviation airport for chartered flights. The airport operates the flights of the carrier Airmark Aviation. It also operates chartered flights to Batam, Indonesia.

Airlines in Singapore
Various carriers, both international and domestic, link Singapore with other parts of the world. Changi International Airport is the hub of Singapore Airlines, Singapore Airlines Cargo, SilkAir, Tiger Airways, Jetstar Asia Airways, Valuair and Jett8 Airlines Cargo.

International airlines like Cathay Pacific, Garuda Indonesia, Air France, Emirates, British Airways, Korean Air, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas and United Airlines, among others, serve this island country.

Other carriers having services to Singapore are SriLankan Airlines (Colombo) Xiamen Airlines (Fuzhou), Saudi Arabian Airlines (Riyadh), Japan Airlines (Tokyo), Jet Airways (India), Air Seychelles (Mahé) and others.

The domestic airlines that serve Singapore include SilkAir, Singapore Airlines, Tiger Airways, Jetstar Asia Airways and Valuair. The international destinations served by these airlines include Balikpapan, Abu Dhabi, Bandar Seri Begawan, Denpasar, Delhi, Dhaka, Dubai and Hanoi.

Other international destinations of these airlines are Ho Chi Minh City, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Bangalore, Cebu, Chengdu, Chennai, Chiang Mai, Chongqing and Coimbatore, to name a few.

Some of the other major airlines that operate from Changi Airport are Air China, Air India Express, Bangkok Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Delta Air Lines and Etihad Airways. Other operators serving flights from this airport are Emirates, Hong Kong Airlines, Kingfisher Airlines, Philippine Airlines, Singapore Airlines and United Airlines.

For reaching Singapore from India, direct flights are available from Tiruchirapally, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Thiruvananthapuram. Other Indian cities like Coimbatore, Kochi, Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata and Ahmedabad also have direct flights to the island country.

Tiger Airways, Air-India Express, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Jet Airways, Air India and SilkAir have direct flights from India to Singapore. Carriers like Tiger Airways, Lufthansa and Kingfisher have indirect flights to Singapore from India.