SINGAPORE - Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group will be paying its shareholders a special dividend over the next three financial years, even as its earnings were dragged down by losses from associate Air India, among other things.

SIA’s earnings, or net profit, fell 67.8 per cent year on year to $239 million in the first half of its financial year ending on Sept 30, due to lower interest income and its share of Air India’s losses, it said on Nov 13 in an exchange filing after market hours.