Changi Airport Group: Excellence in Airport Facilities and Services

Just recently, Singapore Changi Airport has received another five awards, including four ‘Best Airport’ titles, in the month of September 2009. These awards were for Changi’s excellence in airport facilities and services. Earlier, Changi Airport has been voted the “Best Airport in the World” by readers of Business Traveller (UK edition), a leading global travel publication. Since it first won the title in 1988, Changi Airport has won the award for 22 consecutive years.

Closer to home, Changi Airport received the same affirmation from readers of Business Traveller’s Asia-Pacific edition, who also chose Changi as the “Best Airport in the World” for the 18th consecutive year. In addition, Changi Airport was named “Best Airport Duty-Free in the World” by the magazine for the 12th year running. In another poll conducted by online travel magazine Smart Travel Asia (www.smarttravelasia.com), Changi Airport was ranked highest in the “Best Airport Worldwide” category out of more than 100 airports. According to Smart Travel Asia, Changi Airport’s shopping facilities, greenery and colour, as well as the addition of Terminal 3 - have made Changi “a formidable competitor”.

Separately, Changi Airport also received the “Best International Airport” accolade from Travel Weekly China, a major travel trade publication in China, as part of its ‘China Travel and Meeting Industry Awards 2009’.

It's worthy to note that since its opening in 1981, Changi Airport has won more than 300 airport awards. The five awards received this month bring to 17 the number of awards received by Changi Airport so far in 2009.

Changi Airport Group - Official Launch

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore had been preparing for this day over the last 2 years and one could feel the energy particularly over the last 6 months where almost every divison in the organisation had ben playing their respective parts in the corporatisation efforts.

Apart form ramping up performance standards as well as training on all fronts, the emergency services and security units have also been involved in a great way as well. This included sending officers for relevant skills training to prepare for the corporatised role, as well as other areas of plans updating, logisitical acquisitionand so on.

As of today 1st July 2009, the new Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore as well as the new Changi Airport Group (wholely owned by Temesak Holdings) will commence operations in Singapore's aviation field.

Stay tuned for more developments ahead!

Changi Airport Group: A New Beginning...

First off, let me clarify by saying that this is not the official Changi Airport Group website and neither is it endorsed by the said organisation.

However, this blog was created from an avid aviation enthusiast's perspective, particularly from the field of emergency planning and business continuity. Why these two specific ares you ask? For one obvious reason: an airport community regardless of its infrastructure as well as hardware can never be "perfect" unless there exist some form of planning and response to emergency, crisis as well as disaster scenarios.

With recent occurrences in the aviation community where there have been reports or even "leaks" of potential non-desirable covert events taking place, it is a no brainer issue that airports around the world take a serious view and investment in aviation security as well as emergency response planning.

As this site developes, there will be other issues related to the aviation industry and particularly on Changi covered as well. So stay tuned!

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