Water spilled from a galley shut down all electricity supplies except the emergency battery backup on a Qantas Boeing 747-400 on Jan. 7, luckily when the aircraft was just 15 minutes from landing at Bangkok after a flight from London. The plane was at 15,000 feet at the time it lost power, already descending on approach. The water, leaking through a cracked drip tray under the first-class galley, short-circuited a generator control unit, the Australian airline says.

Singapore Airlines will introduce a fourth daily flight between Singapore and Sydney from April. The Boeing 777-300ER service will take the airline’s daily capacity between the cities to 1,500 seats. The carrier has deployed its first Airbus A380 on the same route.

Indonesian budget airline Lion Air says it will set up affiliates in Australia and Thailand, fulfilling plans it announced last year to develop a franchise business like that of Singaporean rival Tiger Airways. Lion has agreed to buy 49% of an unnamed Australian company, even though Australia permits wholly foreign-owned carriers to fly domestically, as Tiger does. The joint firm will fly six aircraft under the title Lion Air Australia, while the Thai operation will be Lion Air Thailand and have four aircraft.