Aviation in Singapore

Singapore LCC carriers in JV push Singapore’s Tigerair and Scoot have both announced joint ventures in third countries and also plan a deep-seated alliance between the two LCCs. Tigerair plans to establish a joint venture in Taiwan with China Airlines and has also agreed a codeshare deal with ...

Rolls-Royce has welcomed a decision by Singapore Airlines to select 30 additional Airbus A350-900 aircraft that will be powered by Trent XWB engines – the most efficient large civil aero engines flying in the world today. Singapore Airlines has ordered 30 A350-900s plus options for 20 more. The op...

Oxford Aviation Academy has become the first non-Singaporean type rating training organisation to receive approval from the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS). With this new TRTO approval in place, OAA’s Hong Kong training centre can now deliver approved A320 and A330 Type Rating Trainin...

Singapore has selected three consortiums to develop paperless airfreight processes as part of the e-freight@Singapore programme. The three consortia selected by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) are led by; • Innosys (Solutio...

The Singapore Air Show offered further proof of the shift in the aviation balance of power towards Asia, with Indonesia at the centre of many of the key deals. And the country’s leading low-cost carrier Lion Air was the star of two key orders, at different end of the scale. The carrier signed ...

 Singapore Special  Singapore Airshow set to reach new heights This year’s Singapore Airshow could be the biggest yet and, once again, gives the island nation a chance to highlight its aerospace capabilities and its strategic significance as an aviation hub, writes Andrzej Jeziorski.   Desp...

Qantas’s Airbus A380 fleet remains grounded a week after an uncontained engine failure forced one of the aircraft to make an emergency landing in Singapore. The incident took place on 4 November, when Qantas flight QF32 suffered an engine failure shortly after take-off from Singapore en route to S...

Signing agreement between Sabina technic,Singapore Component Solutions and AFI KLM E&M Singapore Component Solutions (SCS), a joint venture between Sabena technics & AFI KLM E&M dedicated to component support for ATR and Airbus A320 aircraft fleets, and Liebherr-Aerospace, a leading sup...

Winners Jet Aviation Jet Aviation wins AsBAA’s Best MRO Icons of Aviation award for 4th year running Jet Aviation is pleased to announce it won the Best MRO Provider award at the AsBAA Icons of Aviation (IOA) 2018 awards event held in Hong Kong on November 10, 2018. The annual IOA Awards commend t...

Etihad to put 787 on Singapore route Etihad Airways has announced it will put a Boeing 787 on the Abu-Dhabi-Singapore route 1 August 2015. Qatar Airways will put an Airbus A350 on Doha-Singapore from next week, as the Gulf carriers step up their presence in the City State. Emirates already serves Si...