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Auckland has become the latest destination to receive Singapore Airline’s (SIA) new premium economy cabin. SIA has upgauged its daily service between Singapore and Auckland to the Airbus A380, from the Boeing 777-300ER, for the peak summer holiday season. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the

Melbourne has a new low-cost option for air travel to Asia with the arrival of Singapore Airlines-owned Scoot’s inaugural flight on Sunday. Flight TZ22, operated by operated by Boeing 787-8 9V-OFC, touched down just before 1100 local time, with the aircraft on the ground for a little over an hour before departing as TZ21 back to

SIA to bring back nonstop US services by 2018 with ultra long range A350-900 Random says: These ultra long-range aircraft from both manufacturers may just wrest some of geographic advantage away from intermediate Asian and Middle-Eastern locations and their resident airlines. It is always going to be hard for carriers in Australia, NZ and even

One of two AgustaWestland’s AW609 tiltrotor prototypes crashed during a test flight on October 30, killing its two crew, an Italian and an American pilot. Tiltrotor N609AG was the second 609 prototype built, and crashed into a field near the town of Santhià, around 30nm south-west AgustaWestland’s Cascina Costa headquarters from where it had departed. This content

The Australian Defence Force has transferred high-quality imagery and colour video via wideband high frequency radio as part of RAAF technology transformation effort known as Plan Jericho. The trial of the technology at HMAS Harman near Canberra is a major technical advance over the existing high frequency radio infrastructure, Defence stated. This content is available

Lockheed Martin has announced that Jeff Babione has been named as the executive vice-president and general manager of the F-35 Lightning II program, effective from January 1 next year. Babione succeeds Lorraine Martin, who has been appointed to the newly created position of deputy executive vice-president of Mission Systems and Training. This content is available