Singapore Air is majority government owned and is closer to having “utility” airlines than not.

Conversely, Air India was majority government owned, did a pretty bad job of it, and is now privately owned.

Yes, Singapore Airline is government owned, but I don't see how it's a utility?

If anything it’s a tool for making people outside of Singapore like/want to do business in Singapore, so if that makes it some twisted kind of utility then I guess anything can be a utility. Not like they have domestic flights.