Marc Joel Atrero

An airline pilot gets up close with the F-35 There is no doubt that the star of the recent Australian International Airshow at Avalon was the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. Its arrival on the Friday had every eye, lens and mobile phone cast skyward while the queue to sit in the full-scale mock-up came

End of an era for the Snowy Hydro SouthCare Rescue Late in the afternoon on April 1 the Canberra-based Snowy Hydro SouthCare Rescue Helicopter Service made its final life-saving flight. The mission, using SouthCare’s blue, white and green Bell 412 ‘classic’ VH-NSC, known affectionately as ‘Charlie’, brought to a close an 18-year career for what

Plan Jericho two years on Two years on from the release of Plan Jericho, the vision embodied in the plan to transform the Royal Australian Air Force remains the same: to develop a future force that is agile and adaptive, truly joint, and capable of fighting and winning in the information age. And the three

Heavy maintenance providers focus on scale As far as heavy maintenance is concerned, size does matter. In a hyper competitive market, airlines are looking to cut costs anywhere they can without threatening the safe carriage of passengers to their destination. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue

Premium economy continues to expand When Virgin Atlantic invented premium economy in 1992, the airline went to seatmakers Contour (now Zodiac) and ordered a cut-down, reduced-pitch version of the cradle sleeper seat that British Airways was then using in its Club World business class. Pitching it at 38in, the upward pressure from the new Mid

Virgin Australia is about to set out on its great Asian adventure. Flights from Melbourne to Hong Kong will launch in June, with Beijing to follow later. Can it really challenge the incumbents? Will the move revive its battered fortunes or spark a damaging price and capacity tussle with rivals? When Virgin Australia chief executive