Marc Joel Atrero

Regional Express’s WA expansion Regional Express (Rex) is no stranger to operating on thin, rural and regional routes. For 14 years, the airline has successfully flown routes that the big airlines simply don’t want. With its 2016 expansion into Western Australia, Rex gained a national footprint. Its services to Albany and Esperance added two key

The holy grail of on-time performance Aviation, like so many other industries, is living in the age of the measure. Everything must be quantified and that which can’t be, mustn’t be of value, right? I think we all know the answer to that one. The current epoch of managerial technique is bound to have its

Boeing positions its product line for the future As Boeing celebrated its 100th anniversary during the Farnborough Airshow week in mid-July, chairman and CEO Dennis Muilenburg says the company is arguably in as strong a position as any time in its history. “But that said, the marketplace is tough and competitive with economic challenges around

Airlines don’t have a glorious history of investing in other industries Airlines have made some strange investments over the years, some of them difficult to link to the business of transporting people across the skies in big jets. For some inexplicable reason, for example, Japan Airlines once owned a dry cleaning business in Honolulu, though

Airbus A320neo family starts at passenger experience advantage to 737 MAX At the Farnborough Air Show this year, the size of the re-engined narrowbody market was truly highlighted by both Boeing and Airbus, with their market forecasts suggesting that the majority of their business for the next 20 years will be of the narrowbody size.

Closing the air-sea gap Australian air power has always had a distinct maritime focus. Sir Richard Williams, the RAAF’s founding father, established the importance of the sea to Australian airmen when he stated in 1925 that, “Australia’s first requirement is to provide itself with an Air Force capable of defeating that which might be brought