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Singapore Airlines is losing money, and it is not because the flying got worse. In the three months to June 2026, SIA posted its first quarterly loss since the pandemic, S$76 million, in a quarter where it carried a record 10.9 million passengers and pulled in record revenue of S$5.7 billion.
To understand why, you have to go back to 1972, when Malaysia-Singapore Airlines was split in two. Singapore took the jets, the international routes and 22 cities in 18 countries. Malaysia took the domestic network. For 54 years that looked like the obvious win, and it is only now that the cost of having no home market is turning up in the accounts.
In this video I go through what actually changed. Why the Changi hub can be copied, why SIA has spent since 1989 trying to buy a home market inside someone else's country, and what its 25.1% stake in Air India is now costing the dividend.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Hook
01:04 - Before there was SIA
01:56 - IBKR shout out
02:29 - The divorce
04:20 - The constraint that built it
06:15 - So what actually happened?
08:28 - Reason one
09:31 - Reason two
12:15 - Reason three
15:50 - But to be fair
17:39 - Close
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