Jetstar, the budget unit of Qantas Airways, plans to base four Airbus A330 widebody planes in Singapore as part of the expansion of its long-haul business, Jetstar Asia Chief Executive Officer Chong Phit Lian said in an interview in Singapore today. The carrier may also start flying to cities in north Asia and southern Europe from Singapore, she said. Jetstar began a service to Melbourne from today and will fly to Auckland from March.
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ST Engineering says unit ST Aerospace, has renewed a maintenance contract with US Airways worth US$60 million ($82 million) over three years.
Starting next January, the renewed contract will primarily cover heavy maintenance visits for US Airways’ fleet of Airbus A330 as well as Boeing 737, 757 and 767 aircraft.
Maintenance work for the aircraft will be performed at ST Aerospace’s Mobile facility at Alabama in the US.
The young girl who was the sole survivor of the Yemenia plane crash last month has left hospital in Paris.
Baya Bakari, whose age has been given as between 12 and 14, had been in hospital since 2 July, suffering from burns and a broken collar bone.
The plane, going to the Comoros from Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, came down in bad weather with 153 people on board.
Meanwhile, a French navy ship has pinpointed the location of the plane’s flight recorders.
Baya’s mother was among those who died in the crash.
Baya was thrown from the plane, and was found hours later clinging to wreckage. She was barely able to swim, and her father described her survival as "a miracle".
On Thursday, he said Baya had been "impatient" to leave hospital. The family lives in Paris.
Clues
The signal from the plane’s "black box" flight recorders – which should give clues as to what caused the Yemenia plane to crash – was detected on 5 July.
Since then, the navy ship "Beautemps-Beaupre" has been mapping the ocean floor in order to find their exact location.
In a news conference in Moroni, the capital of the Comoros, the French ambassador Luc Hallade said the flight recorders were at a depth of more than 1,000m (3,200ft).
Yemenia flight IY626 crashed on its way from the capital of Yemen, Sanaa, to Moroni. Passengers travelled on an Airbus A330 from Paris and Marseille, but switched to an older Airbus A310 in Sanaa.
Many of those who died were Comoran. Comorans living in France staged a series of demonstrations against the airline, alleging that the older plane was not airworthy.
Yemenia says the crash was probably caused by bad weather. </p
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