Silk Air
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| IATA code : | MI |
| ICAO code : | SLK |
| Call sign : | SILKAIR |
| Founding: | 1975 (as Tradewinds) |
| Seat: |
 Singapore
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| Home airport : | Singapore Changi |
| IATA prefix code : | 629 |
| Frequent Flyer Program : | KrisFlyer |
| Fleet size: | 32 (+ 31 orders) |
| Aims: | international |
| Website: | www.silkair.com |
Silk Air (legally SilkAir (Singapore) Private Limited ) is an airline from Singapore with base on the Singapore airport . It is a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines .
history
The history of the Silk Air goes up to the year 1975 back, as Singapore Airlines , the tourism company tour operator Tradewinds Pte Ltd founded. Tradewind only offered package tours with Singapore Airlines flights to the vicinity of the city-state. In 1989 the offer was expanded with own flights under an airline of the same name. Destinations were Pattaya, Phuket, Hatya, Kuantan and Tioman.
In 1992, Tradewinds was renamed SilkAir . At the same time the structure of the offer was changed. SilkAir flew from then on as a regional airline with full service. Tradewind Tours & Travel Division became a subgroup of SilkAir.
Silk Air was the first provider in Asia to offer portable video-on-demand on flights with the digEplayer 5500 , but only on flights to China and India .
In May 2018, Singapore Airlines announced that the Silk Air brand would be phased out and the airline would be fully integrated into Singapore Airlines.
Destinations
Silk Air serves cities in Southeast , South and East Asia as well as Darwin and Cairns in Australia . It operates 25 of the 49 short-haul routes operated by the Singapore Airlines group.
- Code sharing
Codeshare agreements exist with the parent company Singapore Airlines as well as with Malaysia Airlines , Air India , Garuda Indonesia , Bangkok Airways and Virgin Australia .
Silk Air machines fly from Singapore to Dili, East Timor , for Air Timor .
fleet
As of March 2020, the Silk Air fleet consists of 32 aircraft with an average age of 5.5 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats ( Business / Economy ) |
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| Airbus A319-100 | 2 | Retirement by 2020 | 128 (8/120) | |
| Airbus A320-200 | 7th | 150 (12/138) | ||
| Boeing 737-800 | 17th | with winglets fitted | 162 (12/150) | |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | 6th | 31 | all inactive; Delivery by 2022 | 156 (12/144) |
| total | 32 | 31 |
Incidents
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On December 19, 1997, a Boeing 737-300 with the aircraft registration number 9V-TRF on Silk Air Flight 185 from Jakarta to Singapore fell from a height of 10,000 meters vertically into the Musi River on Sumatra and crashed at high speed, with all 104 people died on board. Because the entire aircraft was destroyed and both flight recorders, which record all important data and conversations in the cockpit, had failed before the dive, the Indonesian investigators could not explain what had happened. In their final report, they ruled out neither a technical defect nor a pilot's error. The US NTSB , on the other hand, considered it likely that one of the two pilots (presumably the captain himself) had crashed the Boeing on purpose . According to the NTSB, the nosedive characteristics indicated that the nosedive had been initiated deliberately. However, there were previously similar accidents with this aircraft, which by a sudden uncontrolled full deflection of the rudder had been caused (see also SilkAir Flight 185 ) .
See also
Web links
- Silkair website (including English, Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ SilkAir To Undergo Major Cabin Product Upgrade And Be Merged Into SIA. In: singaporeair.com. May 18, 2018, accessed May 18, 2018 .
- ↑ silkair.com - Route Map (English), accessed on June 21, 2015
- ^ SilkAir Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved March 26, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Boeing - Orders & Deliveries (English), accessed on September 8, 2016
- ↑ silkair.com - Our Fleet , accessed June 21, 2015
- ↑ Official final report of the NTSC (PDF) (English), accessed on December 29, 2019
- ^ Accident report B-737-300 9V-TRF , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 9, 2020.