Marc Joel Atrero

The painful lessons of Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 The Indonesia AirAsia A320 that crashed in December 2014 killing all 162 aboard flew to Perth 38 times in the preceding 12 months with the same recurring fault that started the chain of events resulting in its loss. The Airbus A320, PK-AXC, was used extensively on the

Understanding fifth generation air power Fighters are commonly defined by their “generation”. While categorisations can be disputed, representative types include: for the first generation, the F-86 and MiG-15; for the second, the Mirage III and MiG-21; third, the F-4 and MiG-25; fourth, the F-15 and MiG-29; and fifth, the F-22, F-35 and PAK FA. Improvements

New routes, capacity and passenger experience coming from overseas carriers Oddly enough, parking my rental car under the shadow of a Boeing 747-400 wing wasn’t the strangest part of visiting Qantas’s retired VH-OJA City of Canberra at the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) at the Illawarra Regional Airport near Wollongong. It wasn’t the slight cognitive

Australian aviation news & views Revenue sharing Qantas-AA alliance takes off Sydney services give American Airlines “skin in the game”, says Qantas chief American Airlines and Qantas say their deepening alliance on the trans-Pacific market will inevitably lead to new routes and new services as both airlines take advantage of their different fleets to fly

Agility big and small There’s never been a better time to be an Australian, proclaims our new Prime Minister. So has there ever been a better time to be the boss of Boeing? New Boeing chief executive officer Dennis Muilenburg was in Australia in late November, visiting the leadership and staff of his company’s Australian

ANA rejoins battle for the Japan-Australia route Japan’s biggest airline is hoping to tap into the recent growth in passengers travelling between Australia and Japan with its new Tokyo/Haneda- Sydney service which took off in December. ANA brought out its Star Wars-themed 787, dubbed the R2-D2 Dreamliner, for the inaugural flight that proved a popular