Marc Joel Atrero

Does UK air traffic contestability have lessons for Australia? There has been something of a push from parts of the government and industry to introduce competition for Airservices in the delivery of air traffic services to drive down costs. So how could that work? Evidence from the United Kingdom suggests that competition is difficult to

Qantas to once again become an ETOPS world leader The Qantas order for Boeing 787‑9s for its international operation and the aircraft’s capability to operate 330 minutes ETOPS opens up the possibility to fragment the South Pacific as never before and ultimately to open up flights across the South Pole. While Qantas, through Trans Australian

UNSW aviation students will have the ability to become ‘QantasLink Approved’ through the course of their degree studies To a backdrop of University of New South Wales training aircraft and a QantasLink Dash 8-Q400, the two organisations announced the next step in their long-standing relationship. Selected student pilots at UNSW will have tailored training designed

Australia committed two virtual assets to exercise Coalition Virtual Flag 15 The Royal Australian Air Force’s much vaunted Plan Jericho calls for the service to strengthen its embrace of live, virtual and constructive (LVC) training, which sees the increasing concurrent use of simulators operating together in a drive underpinned by greater technological improvement in simulator

Air New Zealand closes historic Boeing 737 chapter Air New Zealand has retired its iconic Boeing 737-300 aircraft, with the final flight, NZ557 between Auckland and Christchurch, operated by ZK-NGI on September 6. It closed a chapter of domestic and trans-Tasman aviation that the airline has been marking, well aware of the historic nature of

Marand moves from from HSV to JSF From its tentative beginnings as a maker of tools for the local automotive industry, Marand Precision Engineering has, in the last 15 years, emerged as Australia’s most engaged company with the $1 trillion F-35 program. Immigrant song Marand is today headquartered in the Melbourne suburb of Moorabbin, not