Threats
• Singapore Airlines is the world’s largest and most profitable airline carrier, but this
does not mean that it is immune from threats. Chief of these is perhaps the rapid
growth of several Middle Eastern airlines, such as Etihad and Emirates, many of which
have adopted similar business models and market positioning strategies as Singapore
Airlines (Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2012).
• Outside of the Middle East, other airlines have also begun to compete with the
carrier in its traditional marker space, the premium passenger. At the start of the
century, Singapore Airlines was the clear market leader in business class products
(Chan, 2000), but in recent years similar cabin products have been introduced by
European carriers like British Airways (Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2012). This means
that the offerings of Singapore Airlines, which once would have been considered
innovative or avant-garde, are increasingly in danger of appearing outmoded.