]It Seems Australian passengers will be the first to experience iPod and iPhone connections as part of cabin features when Singapore Airlines new A330-300 planes start flying from the end of March. The new planes will replace Boeing 777s flying from Singapore to Brisbane followed by Perth and then Adelaide from June. They will also be used on Japan routes. A ceremony to launch the Airbus delivery of the first of 19 estimated $US200 million ($A304.88 million) A330-300 aircraft to Singapore Airlines was held at the Airbus assembly plant in Toulouse last Wednesday.

It was not quite as big a sensation as the launch of the A380 and nowhere near as huge as Barack Obama's inauguration but still fairly big for both Airbus and Singapore Airlines, in what was described as troubled times for the travel and airline industries. Although the twin-engine plane delivered to Singapore Airlines is brand new, the model itself has been around since the early 1990s and Airbus has won more than 1000 orders for the various versions of the aircraft.

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