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Singapore Airlines Broadens Reach of Inflight Connectivity
Monday June 12, 9:51 am ET



Sky-High Internet Surfing Now Available to Customers Flying from San Francisco and Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Singapore Airlines (SIA) is expanding availability of Connexion by Boeing®, an inflight broadband service providing passengers with real-time, high-speed and secure Internet connectivity, on select flights from San Francisco and Los Angeles. The service, currently offered on the Singapore-London, Singapore-Sydney and Singapore-Frankfurt-New York (JFK) flights, is now available on all of the following routes:

SERVICE ROUTE LAUNCH DATE
SQ1 San Francisco-Hong Kong-Singapore May 24
SQ2 Singapore-Hong Kong-San Francisco May 24
SQ11 Los Angeles-Tokyo-Singapore June 8
SQ12 Singapore-Tokyo-Los Angeles June 8

With Connexion by Boeing, passengers in all three classes can use their wireless-enabled laptops to send and receive e-mails and connect to real-time Internet during flight. In addition, passengers can tune into four channels of live global TV, including BBC World, CNBC, EuroNews and Eurosport News, on their laptops, available at no additional charge to passengers who use Connexion by Boeing. Several pricing options are available to suit passengers' individual connectivity needs:

INTERNET TIME PRICING
1 Hour $9.95
2 Hours $14.95
3 Hours $17.95
24 Hours* $26.95

*Passengers who purchase 24 hours of Internet time ($26.95) will only need to pay once to gain access to inflight throughout multi-sector and connecting flights such as San Francisco-Hong Kong-Singapore, Los Angeles-Tokyo-Singapore and New York-Frankfurt-Singapore.

The service is proving popular for a variety of reasons. In a 2005 independent global survey of 3,200 travelers conducted for Connexion by Boeing, 90 percent of respondents said they use the inflight Internet service to access their work e-mail (most using a corporate network), 76 percent accessed their personal e-mail, 69 percent said they browsed the Internet, and 41 percent engaged their friends and family via instant messaging or live chat applications. When asked to name the top benefits of inflight connectivity, passengers said they used Connexion by Boeing to be productive (44 percent), stay in touch (25 percent), and access e-mail (22 percent).

SIA plans to introduce Connexion by Boeing progressively on other long- haul flights to and from North America throughout the year.