Changi Airport Group Press Meet

Changi Airport - The preferred choice for business travellers

Singapore is strategically located at the heart of ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations). Its extensive air and sea linkages provide access to over 2.8 billion people within a seven hour flight radius. Hence this makes it a critical hub for professional exchange as well as inter-regional and intra-regional trade.

Changi Airport serves more than 100 airlines flying to over 300 cities in about 70 countries and territories worldwide. About 6500 flights land or depart from Changi each week, with more than 50 million passengers passing through the airport last year, its excellent connectivity is a key factor why many business travellers choose to travel via Changi.

As Singapore is soon emerging as the financial hub for Asia, the Indian business traveller makes 4-5 trips to the city annually on an average. It is Asia's leading destination for MICE, and offers plenty of solutions to cater to incentive groups and large scale conventions and exhibitions across the nation.

Value for money, easy accessibility to everywhere, high quality and well located hotels and convenience are some of the advantages a business traveller can look for whan planning a business trip to Singapore.

5 Things a business traveller can do while he is at Changi:
1. Business Centre: There are a wide range of services provided by Changi Airport, such as telephones, fax machines, photocopying, and work areas, computers with fast Internet access, modems, secretarial services, telex, translation services and meeting rooms. These business facilities at Changi Airport are located in the business centres on the third level of each terminal.

2. Financial News & Information: At Changi's iConnect Lounge, passengers with Bloomberg accounts can gain access to the latest financial news and information via the Bloomberg terminals at the iConnect lounge. In addition, passengers can also access emails with greater privacy and comfort while in transit or waiting to board their flights.

Located in a quiet environment at Terminal 2 Departure Transit Lounge on Level 3, the lounge offers four Bloomberg terminals, two Bloomberg TV screens, 15 Internet kiosks and six laptop access points.

Singapore Changi Airport

• Total land area of 1,300 hectares, including 870 hectares reclaimed from the sea.
• Two runways, each 4 km long.
• Three terminals with an annual handling capacity of 66 million passengers.
• Where about 40,000 people work.
• Used by 53.7 million passengers in 2013.
• Handled 1.85 million tonnes of cargo in 2013.
• About 6,500 flights each week, or about one every 90 seconds.
• Connected to some 300 cities in the world either directly or indirectly.
• Serves more than 100 airlines, including five based in Singapore 4 Singapore Airlines, SilkAir, Scoot, Tigerair and Jetstar Asia.
• Connected to 11 Indian cities via Air India, Air India Express, Jet Airways, indiGo, Singapore Airlines and Tigerair.
• 92 contact stands across Terminals 1, 2 and 3, 19 of which are A380-compatible.
• Handles some 70,000 bags every day, rain or shine.
• There are close to 12,000 baggage trolleys available for passengers, free-of-charge.
• Passengers are spoilt for choice with more than 350 retail and service and over 120 food and
beverage outlets.
• Five themed gardens - Cactus Garden at Terminal 1, Enchanted Garden, Orchid Garden and Sunflower Garden at Terminal 2 and Butterfly Garden at Terminal 3.
• More than 550 free Internet terminals across the three terminals and airport-wide free Wi-Fi.
• 880 charging points across the terminals for passengers to charge their portable electronic devices while resting.
• Terminal 3’s unique main building roof has 919 skylight openings - to allow natural sunlight into the terminal building while keeping the heat out.
• Terminal 3’s Green Wall spans 300 metres across the terminal and is about 15 metres high.
• More than 1,000 butterflies in the Butterfly Garden at Terminal 3.
• Distinctive carved sandstone art wall at Terminal 3 Arrival Hall has welcome messages in
16 languages viz English, Chinese, Malay/Bahasa Indonesia, Tamil, Hindi, Sinhala, Japanese, Tagalog, Thai, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Portuguese.
• Voted Best Airport in the World by Business Traveller (UK) magazine for 26 consecutive years. Changi Airport is today the world’s most awarded airport with over 470 awards.

Robin Goh Assistant Vice President (Corporate Communications) Changi Airport Group

Robin Goh is Assistant Vice President (Corporate Communications) at Changi Airport Group (CAG), the manager and operator of the award winning Singapore Changi Airport. In his role, Robin drives the public relations, social media, corporate communications and perception management programmes for both Changi Airport and Seletar Airport, in Singapore and various overseas markets. Serving more than 53 million passengers each year and over 100 airlines, Changi Airport's stakeholders are many and varied. Robin and his team have the unique challenge of communicating with them across multiple platforms and round-the-clock.

Prior to joining CAG, Robin was Assistant Director of Communications for Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore's first integrated resort. Robin spearheaded media strategies and crisis plans behind the development and opening of Singapore's first integrated resort, comprising a world-class casino, six hotels, Universal Studios theme park and the world's largest oceanarium.

Before that, Robin was part of the team that saw the rebranding and PR overhaul of Singapore's resort island, Sentosa Leisure Group and headed the PR team for Wildlife Reserves Singapore who owns and manages the Singapore Zoo, Night Safari, Jurong BirdPark and most recently, River Safari. Robin started his career at MediaCorp as a television broadcast journalist.