Marc Joel Atrero

Scoot enters growth phase buoyed by low fuel prices and an all-787 fleet Long-haul low-cost carrier Scoot is trying to disprove the old idiom that the apple does not fall far from the tree, forging its own path and creating a culture and work ethic to call its own while being part of the Singapore

F-35 channels its inner F-111 No aircraft operated by the Royal Australian Air Force since its establishment almost 100 years ago has been more technologically challenging or politically controversial than the F-111C. In particular, repeated catastrophic failures of the wing carry-through box – the structural component on which the aircraft’s variable-geometry wings pivoted – saw

There just may be something in the air Airlines are reporting profits, new aircraft are on order and there are even reports of pilot recruitment. Generally, the only time to trust any pilot recruitment news is when one is strapped into the seat at the end of a runway and about to advance the thrust

The passenger experience conundrum of secondary-to-secondary flights The great age of the next-generation twinjet is at hand. Opening up secondary-to-secondary point-to-point flying, the Boeing 787-8 and Airbus A350-900 (and, on a smaller scale, the Airbus A321neoLR) will change the way we fly. Yet the passenger experience has yet to truly keep pace for premium cabin

Indonesian government looks to privatise still-grounded Merpati Everyone thought it was dead in the water but apparently there is still life in the battered body of Indonesia’s state-owned domestic carrier Merpati Nusantara Airlines. Grounded two years ago with debts of more than A$600 million, crippled by cash flow problems and unable to obtain fuel on

Making hay Qantas gets ratings lift after big first half profit Ratings agency Moody’s has lifted its assessment of Qantas stock back to investment grade, after the airline group delivered a bumper first half profit. On February 23, Qantas reported statutory net profit after tax for the six months to December 31 2015 of $688