Marc Joel Atrero

The Marine Corps declares F-35B IOC, but challenges remain The USMC has declared its Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters available for limited combat operations, ushering in the era of F-35 operations. Ten F-35Bs of the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron VMFA-121 (The Green Knights), based at MCAS Yuma, Arizona have now achieved initial

Tigerair Australia heads abroad Tigerair Australia chief executive Rob Sharp says the airline’s new flights to Bali due to take off in March 2016 is just the first step in the low-cost carrier’s international expansion. Bali will be the first overseas port for Tigerair when it takes over three routes from parent Virgin Australia from

Virgin looking to return to profit in 2015/16 More benign capacity growth and ongoing cost reduction efforts have Virgin Australia confidently predicting clearer skies in the year ahead after handing down its fourth annual loss in the past five years. Those five years have coincided with a period of great change for the Australian carrier,

Indian government won’t regulate ticket prices Sound familiar? Come a long weekend or a holiday period and you want to drive off for a well-earned break, you can almost bet the house on the price of petrol creeping upwards. Most of India’s massive population suspect the same is true of air fares around the subcontinent.

Growler rollout heralds RAAF’s new electronic attack era It will be a magnificent addition to the Australian Defence Force’s joint operations, and I predict it will have one of the biggest strategic effects for the ADF since the introduction of the F-111 in the 1970s,” newly-retired Chief of Air Force Air Marshal Geoff Brown, representing

MH370’s politics and payback The agony and frustration for the relatives of those who have been lost with the disappearance of MH 370 on March 8 last year is indescribable and this was compounded in July with the events surrounding the discovery and identification of a flaperon from a Boeing 777 on Reunion Island. Rather