Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Tata Sons (Tata) have agreed to merge Air India and Vistara, with SIA also investing INR 20,585 million (S$360 million, US$250 million) in Air India as part of the transaction

Singapore Airlines is to invest US$325 million to upgrade 19 Boeing 777-300ERs with the latest generation of cabin products, featuring new seats in all classes of travel and the world’s most advanced in-flight entertainment system.

Singapore Airlines and Scandinavian Airlines are expanding their codeshare agreement to cover more destinations in Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Singapore Airlines has made an advance selection of Economy Class seats on SIA-operated flights available through all booking channels, a service that was previously only available to customers bookng via the Singapore Airlines website or Suites, First and Business Class passengers.

Singapore Airlines is expecting to fly its one millionth A380 customer in February 2009, less than four months after it celebrated its first anniversary of commercial services. Singapore Airlines was the first airline in the world to fly the Airbus A380 super-jumbo, the world’s largest passenger aircraft, when it began commercial services between Singapore and Sydney in October 2007.