Marc Joel Atrero

The ultra long-haul renaissance Doha-Auckland. San Francisco-Singapore. Dubai-Auckland. Los Angeles-Hong Kong. Cebu-Los Angeles. These 17-hour plus marathon flights will stretch aircraft and passenger limits in the new age of ultra long-haul flying. They come just two years after the end of the previous poster child for ultra long-haul flights was closed down: the pair of

Brazil’s Embraer rolled out its latest product offering in late February, the first of its second generation of E Jets. Not surprisingly, there was plenty of emotion as the E190-E2 was slowly towed from a smoke-filled hangar into public view for the first time in the wake of a stirring rendition of the Brazilian national

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