Singapore Airlines Keeps First Class Amenities Amid Budget Woes

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Dec 17th 2009 at 12:01AM

When airlines need to cut costs they have some decisions to make, should they charge more for bags, cut down on amenities, raise ticket prices? Singapore Airlines has said that they will keep the airline's large wine budget even amidst other cuts that include the CEO taking a 20 percent cut in salary after the company's second-successive quarterly loss.

Steven Spurrier, Decanter's consultant editor and one of Singapore Airlines' three wine consultants told decanter.com that passengers who are travel first class still expect the best and that includes fine wines. On the airline passengers are served Dom Pérignon and Krug Champagnes, as well as Grand Cru Burgundy and second-growth Bordeaux.

Singapore Air offers luxury service in their first class cabin that includes Givenchy pajamas, amenities kits from Ferragamo, leather seats and gourmet food that includes entrees like lobster Thermidor with buttered asparagus. It's no surprise that Singapore Air won the best first-class cabin award this year in a survey by London-based research company Skytrax.

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