Marc Joel Atrero

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

Japan’s domestic air traffic market, one of the most mature in Asia, has been stagnant for the past decade and international travel has been dampened by gloomy economic conditions. But the landscape is changing rapidly and competition, particularly between Japan and Australia, is about to heat up. When Japan’s biggest airline All Nippon Airways (ANA)

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.