Marc Joel Atrero

Capability enhancements mark the growing maturity of the Airbus A330 MRTT The MRTT is a unique platform where its main job today is to refuel aeroplanes. But you know what, it refuels aeroplanes with the rest of the cabin barren. ” Fernando Alonso, head of Airbus Military Aircraft, is clearly enthusiastic about the future potential

BAE Systems takes over Hawk lead-in fighter operational maintenance BAE Systems Australia has started to provide operational maintenance for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Hawk 127 lead-in fighter fleet in an expansion of its contract for in-service support of the training system. The company is now the total sustainment provider for the Hawk fleet,

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