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Airline remains confident

Singapore Airlines Ltd, which gets 40 percent of revenue from business passengers, said the credit crisis in the US has not hurt demand for premium-class travel.

Demand from business travelers in the US remains "relatively strong", spokesman Stephen Forshaw said in an e-mail reply to Bloomberg queries. Leisure traffic has declined recently for Asia's most profitable carrier and the airline may alter its route network in response, he said.