ASIA: Giant jumbo marks aviation industry shift

• Print
• Email

Updated October 25, 2007 19:55:27

The world's biggest passenger jet has arrived in Sydney on its first commercial flight. After months of delays and billions of dollars in cost over-runs, the Singapore Airline-owned Airbus A380 jumbo landed in Australia. The historic flight marks a dramatic aviation industry shift from Europe to Asia.

Presenter: Girish Sawlani
Speakers: Chairman of the Centre for Asia pacific Aviation in Sydney, Peter Harbison; Chew Choon Seng, chief executive of Singapore Airlines

• Relations between India, Pakistan nosedive
• Japanese prime minister's popularity plummets
• Australia's government accused of copping out on climate change
• Burmese dying of AIDS 'needlessly' warns charity
• HIV infections rising in Indonesia
• Thai protestors allow airlines to move empty planes out
• Police refuse force in Thai standoff
• Security bringing seiges in Mumbai under control