SPRING Singapore recognised SATS employees' service excellence by awarding a record 559 Excellent Service Awards.

The inaugural flight of Australian Airlines touched down in Singapore. The airline appointed SATS as its ground handling agent.

SATS ventured into catering related business by acquiring a majority stake in Singapore food processing company, Country Foods Pte Ltd.

SATS Group posted a half year profit of $118.2 million.

SATS Deputy Chairman Mr Michael Tan launched SATS' Occupational Health and Safety Policy to promote healthy and safe work practices for employees.

Air Macau became SATS' third new customer in five months.

SATS joint-venture company, Evergreen Air Cargo Services Corporation (EGAC), officially commenced operations of its new 53,000 square metre on-airport facility at Taipei's Chiang Kai Shek Airport.

Minister for Manpower, Dr Lee Boon Yang, officially opened SATS' new $217 million Inflight Catering Centre 1 at Singapore Changi Airport. The new centre uses the latest manufacturing technology and houses state-of-the-art research facilities including the world's first Simulated Aircraft Cabin designed for food testing.

SATS was named Best Air Cargo Terminal Operator in Asia in the 2002 Asian Freight Industry Awards for the eighth time in 13 years. SATS received the most votes from a pool of 13,000 senior cargo industry professionals in Asia Pacific.

26 February 2002

SATS was selected as security consultant for the Asian Aerospace 2002 trade fair in Singapore. The six-day event attracted 62,000 visitors including 22,000 trade visitors from 65 countries and about 900 exhibiting companies from 37 countries.

28 January 2002

SATS Cargo Division was awarded ISO 9001:2000 certification by the Singapore Productivity and Standards Board (now known as ‘Spring Singapore’).

28 January 2002

The SATS Maintenance Workshop at ECC2, which was built exclusively to repair and maintain freighter and passenger aircraft loaders, commenced operations. Costing $1 million, the 840 sq m facility houses seven bays for loader repair, forklift maintenance and equipment washing.