Marc Joel Atrero

One of the most comprehensive aviation sector improvement and reform programs ever undertaken in the Pacific is underway The World Bank-funded Pacific Aviation Investment Program (PAIP) is helping Pacific Island nations to upgrade and maintain infrastructure assets, personnel capacity building and undertake a range of reviews that support policy, masterplanning, and air services agreements that

The RNZAF’s future airlift options Among the many capabilities discussed in New Zealand’s Defence White Paper 2010 is the NZDF’s future airlift requirement – currently fulfilled by two converted Boeing 757s and an ageing fleet of five Lockheed C-130Hs – the oldest of which have now been in service for half a century. The White

Airbus Helicopters’ new-generation seven-tonne class H175 is selling well after entering service in December last year. But the European manufacturer has even higher hopes for its twin, a Chinese-built version currently heading towards certification in Tianjin, the port city south-east of Beijing. TOM BALLANTYNE reports. Laurence Barron, China chairman of European aircraft manufacturer Airbus, is

Auckland Airport’s rise and rise: the 30-year plan Already the second largest airport for international flights in Australasia, Auckland Airport is due to expand to 24 million passengers in the next 10 years and 40 million in the next 30. The airport’s fourteen and a half million annual passengers are already three times the population

The sight is impressive to say the very least. The broad wing span of a Qantas Boeing 747‑400 cutting through the early morning haze with its lights is at odds with the surrounding gloom. And while it is a scene that has been played out many times around the world over the past 26 years,

The RAAF over Iraq Video – Defence footage of the final F/A-18F Super Hornet Operation Okra mission. Imposing itself with mediaeval barbarity upon feebly-defended swathes of Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has, since September 2014 been subjected to an ongoing campaign of coalition airstrikes aimed at degrading and