The Consul saw service with small scheduled and charter airlines as feeder liners in Great Britain, and also Belgium, Iceland, Ireland, Malta, East Africa and Canada, and was the first type operated by Malayan Airways, the predecessor of Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines.
In 1997, Ibrahim denied permission to a joint venture between the Tata Group and Singapore Airlines to operate a domestic airline in India.
It houses a number of companies including SBS Broadcasting Networks Ltd., Teletext Ltd, CBS News, Technicolor, Discovery Channel Europe, Intelsat, Singapore Airlines, Qantas Airlines, Foxtons Estate Agents, and a Virgin Active health club (Virgin Active purchased Esporta at the end of 2011).
He was formally the Senior Manager of Flight Operations and Chief Flight Engineer in Singapore Airlines, having worked there for 42 years.
Singapore Airlines operates the two longest scheduled non-stop flights on record: Newark to Singapore at 18 hr 50 min (67.8 ks) and Los Angeles to Singapore at 18 hr 5 min (65.1 ks).
In addition to his writing activities, Professor Karlins has been interviewed on radio and television talk shows and also served as an international consultant to major companies, focusing his efforts in the aviation industry (where he worked with Singapore Airlines for 20 years).
Singapore Airlines reserves flight numbers beginning with the number 8 to routes in China and Korea.
Using the two systems, he has run numerous meditation courses and retreats for students and adults including non-Buddhists, as well as various organizations and corporations such as the Defence Science Organization, Singapore Airlines, and Hewlett-Packard et cetera.
Singapore Airlines was similarly entered into the Hall of Fame for the "Best Airline" category in 2002.
He also had commercial powers invested upon him as Chairman of the now-defunct Malaysia-Singapore Airlines between 1964 and 1969, and as Deputy Chairman, Malayan Banking Berhad (Maybank) between 1966 and 1971.
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He also designed the corporate identities for many airlines, including Alitalia, British Airways, Garuda Indonesia, Japan Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Cathay Pacific Airways, and Singapore Airlines.