Marc Joel Atrero

Breaking the barriers for women in aviation International Women’s Day was marked once again this year by female aviators banding together on social media and at airports around the world. A variety of functions were held and scholarships announced and tales of pilots of bygone days recounted. And yet for the many positive events, there

Will Singapore Airlines up its stake in Virgin Australia? The coverage of the potential sale of Air New Zealand’s stake in Virgin Australia has been disappointing at best and naïve and possibly irresponsible at worst. Banner headlines such as “Virgin Australia’s credibility takes a dive” are inaccurate and could lead the general public to stop

Air NZ plans capacity boost, schedule changes to domestic network ATR turboprops for Christchurch-Wellington trunk route gets ratings lift after big first half profit Air New Zealand is planning a significant shakeup to its domestic network involving additional capacity on main trunk and regional routes, as well as schedule improvements designed to boost connectivity to

Is the timing of Australia’s F-35 acquisition falling into place? About this time 10 years ago then Defence Minister Dr Brendan Nelson first began giving serious consideration to a potential air combat capability gap between the scheduled retirement of the RAAF’s F-111s in 2010 and the planned arrival of the first F-35s in 2012. Those

Air NZ looking to sell Virgin Australia stake Rocket says: This is nothing like Qantas two years ago. Qantas were profitable before and after that. Virgin under the current leadership has not been profitable at any point. Question that has to be asked is if not for the $350m capital raising, partial sale of Velocity

The RAAF’s networked Hercules Air Mobility Group (AMG)prides itself on being at the vanguard of the implementation of Plan Jericho, the Air Force’s program to transform into “a fully-integrated force that is capable of fighting and winning in the information age”. Following the recent installation of new, advanced satellite communication (SATCOM) and imagery display systems