The World of Aviation

Fresh from its launch of flights to Canberra and Wellington, Singapore Airlines (SIA) is further expanding its footprint in Australia with a new three times weekly service linking Singapore, Indonesia and Australia. The new flight, which will operate on a Singapore-Jakarta-Sydney routing, will launch on November 23, with SIA able to sell tickets for the fifth-freedom

The local chapter of not-for-profit group Women in Aviation International is holding its inaugural Australian conference in Brisbane in October. The event on October 28-30 features guest speakers such as Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) squadron leader and C-17 Globemaster pilot Samantha Freebairn, Boeing Flight Services senior campus manager Marilyn Andre, acrobatics pilot Paul Bennet

The MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system has been granted positive Milestone C low-rate initial production approval, marking the beginning of the production and deployment phase of the US acquisition process. “Triton’s critical technology is mature, and the system development and design review phases have been successful,” Doug Shaffer, vice-president of Triton programs at Northrop Grumman, said in a statement

Outgoing Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) chief executive and director of aviation safety Mark Skidmore says his efforts to overhaul the regulator will pave the way for an improved relationship with industry. Skidmore, who announced his resignation in August less than two years into a five-year term for personal reasons, says in his final CASA

CHC Helicopter has signed a 21-month contract to provide the Australian Army with aeromedical evacuation (AME) and crash response support for deployments throughout Australia. Commencing on October 1 2016, CHC currently provides search and rescue (SAR) services to the RAAF and will use that fleet of Sikorsky S-76s and Bell 412s to provide AME services

Emirates will reinstate its daily Boeing 777-300ER Brisbane-Singapore-Dubai flight from Saturday after the route was suspended for about six months due to what the airline said was because of runway works. Since May, Emirates’ EK432 and EK433 rotations have operated nonstop between Brisbane and Dubai, rather than with a technical stop in Singapore. The EK433