Marc Joel Atrero

Are drones the new IEDs? For the past 14 years the best trained, best equipped, most technologically-advanced armies the world has ever known, including those from America, Australia, the UK and Canada, have been fighting in the so-called ‘War on Terror’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. As of February 2015, those armies had suffered approximately 8,000

No luxury please, we’re Chinese With a population of some 1. 4 billion and a rapidly expanding middle class you would think China’s airlines would have little to gripe about as they survey the enormous potential pool of travellers available to fill the ever-increasing number of seats they are throwing into the country’s crowded skies.

Time for Qantas and Virgin to showcase Australian sparkling wine onboard Both Qantas and Virgin Australia have an excellent history of bringing some of Australia’s best wines into the cabin and across the world, and they should be praised for that. But the fact remains that the quality sparkling wine on board is still French

Qantas should seize the opportunity presented by the 787 The story goes that in the late 1990s then Boeing president Phil Condit’s eyes welled up when he was given a dressing down by Wall Street analysts over the prospect that Boeing would spends billions on a souped-up version of the 747 (the 747-500/-600) before the

The evolving threats to air safety I seriously doubt whether the Wright Brothers could have foreseen it and I am fairly certain they would have been extremely disappointed. While the evolution of their frail flyer into machines that could shrink the globe and smash the sound barrier would have been satisfying, some of the recent

AA to operate SYD-LAX as Qantas returns to SFO American to work hard to overcome Australian perceptions of US carriers American Airlines chief executive Doug Parker acknowledges some Australians may not have the most glowing assessment of US-based carriers based on previous experiences. However, he is confident that will change once they sample American’s flagship