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This March 2017 story from the Australian Aviation archives looks the first five years of SilkAir’s operations in Australia, which began with nonstop flights to Darwin in March 2012.

The eventual retirement of the SilkAir brand has taken a very public step forward with visitors to the carrier’s website now directed to that of parent Singapore Airlines.

Cobham Aviation Services has added mining company Alliance Mineral Assets to its stable of fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) clients.

Delta will fly the Sydney-Los Angeles route with retrofitted 777-200LRs from April 5, offering a aligned cabin products with partner Virgin Australia.

An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashed after repeated nose-down commands from the aircraft’s flight control systems, the preliminary report says.

Airbus is updating the flight warning system on its A320 platform following a 2015 incident on a Virgin Australia Regional Airlines flight, the ATSB says.